Also known as Marine reptile locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saltford Shale Member (Blue Lias Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; concretionary shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion, permineralized, replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collected in the 1990s

Collection methods: mechanical

• Warwickshire County Museum

Primary reference: A. S. Smith and J. D. Radley. 2007. A marine reptile fauna from the Early Jurassic Saltford Shale (Blue Lias Formation) of Central England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 56(4):253-260 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142744: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 16.04.2013

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