Barnstone railway cutting: Rhaetian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Hybodus cloacinus Quenstedt 1858
Duffin 1993 1 specimen
recombined as Polyacrodus cloacinus
BMNH 51495
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Pseudodalatiidae
Dalatias barnstonensis n. sp. Sykes 1971
Reif 1978 8 specimens
recombined as Pseudodalatias barnstonensis
BMNH (Sykes Coll.) 51407-14
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Parascylloides turnerae n. gen., n. sp. Thies et al. 2014
Thies et al. 2014 169 specimens
NKP 3972-3975
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tumicus
Sykes 1979 1 specimen
BMNH P58851
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Sykes 1979 14 specimens
BMNH P58835-58842, 58844-49
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Nottinghamshire
Coordinates: 52.9° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.7° North, 1.4° 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: Bone bed horizon 40 cm above the base of the Rhaetic Westbury Fm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: Repository: Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim (NKP)
Metadata
Database number:120928
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-11-24 08:00:58 Last modified:2023-10-19 22:57:45
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-24 08:00:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43813. J. H. Sykes. 1971. A new Dalatiid fish from the Rhaetic bone bed. Mercian Geologist 4(1):13-22 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]

Secondary references:

46211 C. J. Duffin. 1993. Teeth of Hybodus (Selachii) from the Early Jurassic of Lyme Regis, Dorset (southern England): preliminary note. Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Paper, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 264:45-52 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
38621 W. E. Reif. 1978. Tooth enameloid as a taxonomic criterion 2. Is "Dalatias" barnstonensis Sykes, 1971 (Triassic, England) a squalomorphic shark?. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1978(1):42-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47757 J. H. Sykes. 1979. Lepidotes sp.: Rhaetian fish teeth from Barnstone, Nottinghamshire. Mercian Geologist 7:85-91 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/P. Vazquez]
86141 D. Thies, J. Vespermann, and J. Solcher. 2014. Two new neoselachian sharks (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii, Synechodontiformes) from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) of Europe. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaeozoology - Stratigraphy 303:137-167 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]