Leckhampton Hill, Gryphite Grit (USNM coll) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gryphite Grit Member (Ashton Limestone Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• Inferior Oolite

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135428: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae