Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 7.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beacon Limstone Formation (Lias Group), Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Reptile Bed (“Fish and Saurian” Bed of Moore, 1866) of the Junction Bed, Upper Lias (Toarcian; Lower Jurassic) (Cope et al., 1980; Bennett, 1987). The fossil-rich Reptile Bed is within the lower part of the Upper Lias within the falciferum ammonite zone (Fig. 1b).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; nodular, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Charles Moore in c.1848

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Repository: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute collection (BRLSI); South West Heritage Trust, Taunton (TTNCM)

Primary reference: S. E. Pierce and M. J. Benton. 2006. Pelagosaurus typus Bronn, 1841 (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) from the Upper Lias (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):621-635 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132646: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 23.08.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Matthew Clapham

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