Also known as Slickstones

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma)

• Dating is extremely problematic; most recent review by Whiteside & Marshall (2008) supports a Rhaetian age based on faunal comparisons to the Tytherington fissure, which is dated as Rhaetian primarily on the basis of palynomorphs

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; lithified limestone and green mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: N. C. Fraser and G.M. Walkden. 1983. The ecology of a Late Triassic reptile assemblage from Gloucestershire, England. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 42:341-365 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13178: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 25.01.2002, edited by Richard Butler

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