Also known as Pant Quarry, St. Brides
Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 1.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Fissure fills in Late Carboniferous (Dinantian) limestone. Deposits resulting from Liassic transgression over Carboniferous limestones. Kermack, Mussett, and Rigney (1981) note that a Lower Sinemurian age for the Welsh fissures is supported by evidence in David Pacey's unpublished thesis (1978).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone and hematitic, gray, green, red, yellow marl
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical,
Primary reference: W. A. Clemens. 2007. Early Jurassic allotherians from South Wales (United Kingdom). Fossil Record 10(1):50-59 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137123: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Sphenodontia indet. Jaekel 1910 lepidosaur | |
Mammalia | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Thomasia cf. moorei Owen 1871 mammaliaform NHMUK M45421 (= Specimen A), left upper molariform; M45422 (= Specimen B), left upper molariform; M45423 (= Specimen C), fragment of a molariform with two cusps, central basin, and one complete root; M45426 (= Specimen F), fragment of a molariform: M45424 (= Specimen D), upper incisiform.
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Kuehneotherium "undescribed species" Kermack et al. 1968 mammaliaform | |
Oligokyphus sp. Hennig 1922 mammaliamorph |