South-east corner of Pinhay Bay (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Psiloceras planorbis ammonoid zone, Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• "Lower Lias" at this level should be Blue Lias Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty mudstone and limestone

• "The enclosing sediment was a poorly fossiliferous silty and shaly mudstone, which was interbedded with thin limestones and shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1963

Primary reference: J. E. Pollard. 1968. The gastric contents of an ichthyosaur from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorset. Palaeontology 11(3):376-388 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105080: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus conununis
Ichthyosaurus conununis ichthyosaur
University of Manchester Geology Department SF.1