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

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crickley Member (Birdlip Limestone Formation), Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• "Pea Grit"

• 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 135522: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.10.2012, edited by Marko Manojlovic

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Petalothyris simplex Buckman 1845
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae