east side, Blue Anchor Point, Watchet: Rhaetian, United Kingdom
collected by Dawkins 1861
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
(Haeckel 1866)
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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Acrodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Semionotidae
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Sargodon sp.
Plieninger 1847
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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? Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Tetrapoda indet.
Jaekel 1911
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Storrs 1994 | |||||||||
| Pterosaur identity is "unconfirmed" | ||||||||||
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Gryolepis sp.
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
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Haramiyidae
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Hypsiprymnopsis rhaeticus n. gen., n. sp.
Dawkins 1864
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| OUM specimen [lost], single partial tooth | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys valonienis
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Somerset |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 3.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.5° North, 0.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 208.5 - 201.4 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mercia Mudstone | Formation: | Blue Anchor | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Sully Beds" or grey marl facies of the Blue Anchor Formation. 10.5 ft below the Westbury Fm. bonebed. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: "Reef" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Dawkins | Collection dates: | 1861 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Hypsiprymnopsis holotype site | ||
| Database number: | 89048 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-30 06:15:07 | Last modified: | 2019-12-12 15:09:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-04-30 06:15:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29872. | W. B. Dawkins. 1864. On the Rhaetic beds and White Lias of western and central Somerset; and on the discovery of a new fossil mammal in the grey marlstones below the bone-bed. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 20:396-412 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 71227 | F. v. Huene. 1940. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 93: Mammalia Triadica 1:1-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 53178 | W. A. Macfadyen. 1970. Geological Highlights of the West Country. A Nature Conservancy Handbook 1-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 29873 | R. Owen. 1871. Monograph of the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. 24(110):vi-115 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 62300 | W. J. Sollas. 1880. On the geology of the Bristol District. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 6(8):375-391 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 29868 | G. W. Storrs. 1994. Fossil vertebrate faunas of the British Rhaetian (latest Triassic). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112:217-259 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] |