ammonites
Shepton Mallet (55.6 ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lias Group, Early/Lower Jurassic (201.6 - 175.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; gray, sandy limestone

• "rubbly beds"; "a greyish, sandy, irregularly bedded limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Moore

Primary reference: C. Moore. 1867. On Abnormal Conditions of Secondary deposits when connected with the Somersetshire and South Wales Coal-Basin; and on the age of the Sutton and Southerndown Series . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 23:449-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84125: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 17.09.2008