ammonites
Aust Cliff bone bed (BMNH coll) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.6° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 0.7° E)

• 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

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 122365: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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