Garden Cliff (Bone Bed): Rhaetian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
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Acrodus minimus
Agassiz 1839
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| recombined as Lissodus minimus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
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Hybodus cloacinus
Quenstedt 1858
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
| recombined as Polyacrodus cloacinus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Synechodontiformes
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Hybodus minor
Agassiz 1837
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| recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Synechodontiformes
- Palaeospinacidae
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Nemacanthus filifer
Agassiz 1836
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Nemacanthus monilifer
Agassiz 1836
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Saurichthyiformes
- Saurichthyidae
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Saurichthys apicalis
Agassiz 1834
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Semionotidae
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Sargodon tomicus
Plieninger 1847
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
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Palaeonisciformes
- Palaeoniscidae
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Gyrolepis albertii
Agassiz 1834
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Gyrolepis tenuistriatus
Agassiz 1835
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| synonym of Gyrolepis albertii | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosaurus sp.
de la Beche and Conybeare 1821
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Reptilia
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Rysosteus sp.
Owen 1842
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Owen 1842 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Diapsida | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ichthyosauridae
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Ichthyosaurus sp.
Koenig 1818
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus sp.
Agassiz 1838
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= Ceratodus altus
Agassiz 1838
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Phillips 1871 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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"Pullastra" sp.
Sowerby 1826
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Macfadyen 1970 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Gloucestershire |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 2.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.3° 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 | Other zone: | Avicula contorta |
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Penarth | Formation: | Westbury |
| Local section: | Garden Cliff | Local bed: | 11 |
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pyritic,shelly/skeletal lithified calcareous,cherty/siliceous conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,coprolite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Westbury-on-Severn, Golden Cliff | ||
| Database number: | 96617 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, M. Clapham | Enterer: | H. Street, P. Vazquez, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-15 14:26:24 | Last modified: | 2014-10-23 13:11:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-06-15 14:26:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32796. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 53178 | W. A. Macfadyen. 1970. Geological Highlights of the West Country. A Nature Conservancy Handbook 1-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 14071 | ETE | R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 23773 | ETE | J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos] |