Barnhill Quarry (Bone Bed): Rhaetian, United Kingdom
collected by Reynolds 1936

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Acrodus minimus Agassiz 1839
recombined as Lissodus minimus
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
teeth
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Gyrolepis alberti (Agassiz 1834)
original and current combination Gyrolepis albertii
Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria acuminata (Agassiz 1843)
Reptilia
Rysosteus sp. Owen 1842
nomen dubium belonging to Diapsida
vertebrae
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Gloucestershire
Coordinates: 51.5° North, 2.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 1.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Local section:Barnhill Local bed:1 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "quartz pebbles" but no other description
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:Reynolds Collection dates:1936
Metadata
Also known as:Chipping Sodbury
Database number:163305
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-10-23 11:02:03 Last modified:2014-10-23 11:08:42
Access level:the public Released:2014-10-23 11:02:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53178. W. A. Macfadyen. 1970. Geological Highlights of the West Country. A Nature Conservancy Handbook 1-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]