ammonites
Eyford Hill Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cotswold Shale Formation, Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated lithology not reported

• Deposited in a quiet estaurine or very shallow offshore conditions. Ripple marks and invertebrate borings suggest very shallow marine conditions.

Size class: macrofossils

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 57140: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.12.2005

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