Where: England, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation (Sherwood Sandstone Group), Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• top of the Building Stones beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. I. Murchison and H. E. Strickland. 1837. On the upper formations of the New Red System in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire; showing that the Red or Saliferous, including a peculiar band of sandstone, represent the "Keuper" or "Marnes irisées;" with some account of the underlying sandstone of Ombersley, Bromsgrove, and Warwick, priving that it is the "Bunter Sandstein" or "Grès bigarré" of foreign geologists. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 5(26):331-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 34402: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 29.08.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano and Richard Butler

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