Axmouth bone bed (Enniskillen coll): Rhaetian, United Kingdom
collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Acrodus minimus Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1889 1 specimen
recombined as Lissodus minimus
BMNH P.2759
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Hybodus minor Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1889 6 specimens
recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor
BMNH P.2783-4, P.2786, P.2789, P.2771, P.2788
Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Saurichthys acuminatus Agassiz 1843
1 specimen
recombined as Birgeria acuminata
BMNH P3479 (two teeth in matrix)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Devon
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 3.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 0.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Rhaetian
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Penarth Formation:Westbury
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bonebed is at the base of the Westbury Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular lithified sandy conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "lenses of grit or intra-formational conglomerate (or breccia) of sedimentary rocks with a calcite-cemented sandy matrix"
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: marine coastal conditions, possibly a result of a storm or the Rhaetian transgression
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:-bonebed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen
Metadata
Database number:122367
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-12-22 15:17:34 Last modified:2014-10-23 11:07:59
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-22 15:17:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38893. A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

43905 A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1-613 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]