Also known as Westbury-on-Severn, Golden Cliff

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 0.8° 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: marine; lithified, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, calcareous, cherty/siliceous conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

• "Bones of Saurians and Fishes, teeth of Reptiles, teeth of Fishes"

Preservation: coprolite

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 96617: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.06.2010, edited by Priscilla Vazquez and Matthew Carrano

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