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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Avicula contorta zone, 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; lenticular, sandy conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace, replaced with phosphate, coprolite

Collected by Johnson; reposited in the BGS, BMNH

Collection methods: core, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57958: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.01.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham, Matthew Carrano and Richard Butler

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