Westbury Formation
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Westbury Formation is a geological formation in England, one of the Penarth Group. It dates back to the Rhaetian.[1] The formation is named after the village of Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire.[2] The remains of a giant shastasaurid and dinosaurs are known from the formation.[3][4]
Vertebrate fauna
| Vertebrates reported from the Westbury Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Avalonianus[5] | A. sanfordi[5] | Wedmore Hill[5] | "Several now lost teeth."[5] | |||
|
C. borealis[1] |
Westbury-on-Severn[6] |
"Vertebrae, pubis, ischium, femur, tibia, phalanges, adult."[7] |
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| Ichthyotitan[4] | I. severnensis[4] | Blue Anchor and Lilstock[4] | Two partial surangulars[3] | Possibly one of the largest marine reptiles | ||
| Picrodon[5] | P. herveyi[5] | Wedmore Hill[5] | "Tooth."[5] | |||
| Shastasauridae[3] | Indeterminate[3] | Aust[3] | "Three partial specimens."[3] | |||
| Pachystropheus[8] | Several partial postcranial skeletons | A small thalattosaurian marine reptile, youngest known thalattosaur | ||||
| Lissodus[8] | L. minimus | A hybodont shark | ||||
| Saurichthys[8] | A pike or gar-like predatory fish | |||||
| Sargodon[8] | A dapediiform fish | |||||
| Gyrolepis[8] | A ray-finned fish | |||||
| Birgeria[8] | A large predatory fish | |||||
| Ceratodus[8] | A lungfish | |||||
See also
References
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- ↑ a b c Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 521–525. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details: Westbury Formation
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- ↑ a b c d e f g h H. G. Seeley. (1898). On large terrestrial saurians from the Rhaetic Beds of Wedmore Hill, described as Avalonia sanfordi and Picrodon herveyi. Geological Magazine, decade 4 5:1-6
- ↑ Galton, P. M. (1985). Notes on the Melanorosauridae, a family of large prosauropod dinosaurs (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha). Geobios, 18(5), 671–676.
- ↑ "Table 12.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 234.
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