railway cutting, Shepton Mallet (24.9 ft): Rhaetian, United Kingdom
collected by C. Moore
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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aff. Scelidosaurus sp.
Owen 1859
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| "metacarpal bones" | ||||||||||
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= Tetrapoda indet.
Jaekel 1911
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Storrs 1994 | |||||||||
| Identification as thyreophoran is "dubious" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Somerset |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 2.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 1.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Westbury | ||
| Local section: | Shepton Mallet | Local bed: | 24.9 ft |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "dense black clay" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | C. Moore |
| Taxonomic list comments:Storrs 1993: Scelidosaurus "identification almost certainly is in error" but no alternative ID provided. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84118 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-09-17 14:56:11 | Last modified: | 2016-06-17 16:18:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-09-17 14:56:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28164. | ETE | C. Moore. 1867. On Abnormal Conditions of Secondary deposits when connected with the Somersetshire and South Wales Coal-Basin; and on the age of the Sutton and Southerndown Series . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 23:449-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 24888 | ETE | J. W. Davis. 1881. Notes on the fish-remains of the bone-bed at Aust, near Bristol; with the description of some new genera and species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:414-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 28163 | ETE | G. W. Storrs. 1993. Terrestrial components of the Rhaetian (uppermost Triassic) Westbury Formation of southwestern Britain. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:447-451 [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] |