Aust Cliff bone bed (Mantell coll): Rhaetian, United Kingdom
collected by Gideon Mantell
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Palaeonisciformes
- Birgeriidae
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Saurichthys acuminatus
Agassiz 1843
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Birgeria acuminata | ||||||||||
| BMNH 11205, 11209 (two teeth in matrix) | ||||||||||
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Palaeonisciformes
- Palaeoniscidae
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Gyrolepis albertii
Agassiz 1834
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Woodward 1891 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| BMNH 11206 | ||||||||||
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Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus parvus
Agassiz 1838
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Woodward 1891 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| BMNH 11211 | ||||||||||
| 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
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: | Gideon Mantell |
Metadata
| Database number: | 122364 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham, P. Vazquez |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-12-22 15:11:01 | Last modified: | 2014-10-23 11:10:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-12-22 15:11:01 |
| 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:
| 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 ] |