ammonites
Huntsman's Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eyford Member (Cotswold Slate Formation), Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• early Middle Bathonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray sandstone and gray, sandy limestone

• Deposited in estaurine or shallow offshore conditions. Ripple marks and invertebrate borings suggest very shallow marie conditions for this area.
• "a) Sandstone, hard, grey (weathering brown), rarely passing into a brown, irregularly laminated fissile sandstone; b) Limestone, hard, grey, sandy"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 303-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57120: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 02.12.2005

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