Aust Cliff bone bed (Enniskillen coll) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Bonebed is at the base of the Westbury Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, lenticular, sandy conglomerate

• marine coastal conditions, possibly a result of a storm or the Rhaetian transgression
• "lenses of grit or intra-formational conglomerate (or breccia) of sedimentary rocks with a calcite-cemented sandy matrix"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131728: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 28.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
"Hybodus cloacinus" = Polyacrodus cloacinus1
"Hybodus cloacinus" = Polyacrodus cloacinus1 Quenstedt 1858 elasmobranch
BMNH P.2776-7
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Nemacanthus monilifer2 Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch
BMNH P.2852
 Synechodontiformes -
"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor1
"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor1 Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch
BMNH P.3169, P.5338, P.2787
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus parvus2 Agassiz 1838 lungfish
BMNH P.3392, P.4438d-f
Ceratodus latissimus2 Agassiz 1838 lungfish
BMNH P.4438, P.4438a-c, P.3393-4
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
P.3930
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus higginsi Egerton 1854
BMNH P.3592-a