Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Avicula contorta other zone, Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
Primary reference: T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96612: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Plesiosaurus megacephalus" = Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus
"Plesiosaurus megacephalus" = Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus Stutchbury 1846 plesiosaur |