Beer Crocombe (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Somerset, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone

• This bed is a sparry bioclastic limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Reposited in the BGS, BMNH

Collection methods: salvage,

• Material also held in Bristol City Museum

Primary reference: M. J. Barker and M. C. Munt. 1999. Gastropods. In A. Swift (ed.), Fossils of the Rhaertian Penarth Group [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62956: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 02.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Gordenellidae
"Promathilda rhaetica" = Promathildia, "? Promathilda decorata" = Promathildia
"Promathilda rhaetica" = Promathildia snail
"? Promathilda decorata" = Promathildia snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Heterostropha - Cylindrobullinidae
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Gervillia praecursor" = Bakevellia (Bakevelloides) praecursor Quenstedt 1858 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma punctatum Sowerby 1818 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Placunopsis alpina" = Pseudoplacunopsis alpina
"Placunopsis alpina" = Pseudoplacunopsis alpina Winkler 1859 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
? Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Pteromya crowcombeia Moore 1861 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
"Lyriomyophoria postera" = Elegantinia
"Lyriomyophoria postera" = Elegantinia clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae