Aust Cliff bone bed (Enniskillen coll): Rhaetian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus higginsi Egerton 1854
2 specimens
BMNH P.3592-a
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
1 specimen
P.3930
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus latissimus Agassiz 1838
Woodward 1891 6 specimens
BMNH P.4438, P.4438a-c, P.3393-4
Ceratodus parvus Agassiz 1838
Woodward 1891 4 specimens
BMNH P.3392, P.4438d-f
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Hybodus minor Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1889 3 specimens
recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor
BMNH P.3169, P.5338, P.2787
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Nemacanthus monilifer Agassiz 1836
Woodward 1891 1 specimen
BMNH P.2852
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Hybodus cloacinus Quenstedt 1858
Woodward 1889 2 specimens
recombined as Polyacrodus cloacinus
BMNH P.2776-7
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Gloucestershire
Coordinates: 51.6° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° 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 - 201.40000 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
Metadata
Database number:131728
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-28 09:20:51 Last modified:2014-10-23 11:11:07
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-28 09:20:51
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]
38758 A. S. Woodward. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable ]