Where: England, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 1.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Bone bed horizon 40 cm above the base of the Rhaetic Westbury Fm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: microfossils
Reposited in the BMNH
• Repository: Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim (NKP)
Primary reference: J. H. Sykes. 1971. A new Dalatiid fish from the Rhaetic bone bed. Mercian Geologist 4(1):13-22 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120928: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes | |
Parascylloides turnerae n. gen. n. sp.4
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"Hybodus cloacinus" = Polyacrodus cloacinus1
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"Dalatias barnstonensis n. sp." = Pseudodalatias barnstonensis2
"Dalatias barnstonensis n. sp." = Pseudodalatias barnstonensis2 Sykes 1971 elasmobranch BMNH (Sykes Coll.) 51407-14
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