Also known as Snowshill Quarry

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.9° N, 19.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zigzagiceras zigzag zone, Chipping Norton Limestone Formation (Great Oolite Group), Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• "Hornsleasow Clay Unit" placed between Chipping Norton Member (above) and Hook Norton Member (below). Upper part of unit is the "Green Clay" and lower part is the "Grey Clay". From the macrescens Subzone of the zigzag Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; bioturbated, pebbly, carbonaceous claystone and claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by K. Gardner in 1987

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: S. J. Metcalf and R. J. Walker. 1994. A new Bathonian microvertebrate locality in the English Midlands. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, edited by N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 322-331 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 31054: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.04.2003, edited by Kaitlin Maguire and Richard Butler

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