ammonites
Newtown Limavady bone bed (Egerton coll) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (55.1° N, 7.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 4.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westbury Formation (Pernarth Group), Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma)

• Bonebed is at the base of the Westbury Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, lenticular, sandy conglomerate

• marine coastal conditions, possibly a result of a storm or the Rhaetian transgression
• "lenses of grit or intra-formational conglomerate (or breccia) of sedimentary rocks with a calcite-cemented sandy matrix"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122368: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011

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