Pant Fissure System 1 (St. Bride's Island) (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Pant Quarry, SS 896 760, SS 896760, St. Brides Island

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 1.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Fissure fills in Late Carboniferous (Dinantian) limestone. Deposits resulting from Liassic transgression over Carboniferous limestones. Kermack, Mussett, and Rigney (1981) note that a Lower Sinemurian age for the Welsh fissures is supported by evidence in David Pacey's unpublished PhD thesis (1978).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone and hematitic, gray, green, red, yellow marl

• The matrix filling of the fissures ranges from soft clay to hard marl and often is rich in hematite grains. Matrix color varies from red to yellow, green and gray, and the bone can be white to dark gray and brown. Typically bone is white and matrix is red.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• In the collection of Kuehne?

Primary reference: K. A. Kermack, F. Mussett, and H.W. Rigney. 1973. The lower jaw of Morganucodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 53(2):87-175 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46149: authorized by Robin Whatley, entered by Robin Whatley on 05.01.2005

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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
bone scraps