Westbury
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Westbury Formation is a geological formation in England, one of the Penarth Group. It dates back to the Rhaetian. The formation is named after the village of Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire. The remains of a giant shastasaurid and dinosaurs are known from the formation.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 4Wedmore Hill, bed 7 : England - Somerset 12982 14886 16509 16877 16920 29865 62966
small quarry/pit, Wedmore Hill, parish of Wedmore, SE of Wedmore village, Vale of Glastonbury, Somerset. Described as "about the spot marked on the map of the Geological Survey by the letter D of the word Wedmore," NGR ST 4448.- Theropoda identifié comme Avalonia sanfordi n. gen. n. sp.
- Camelotia borealis
Staple Pit : England - Nottinghamshire 14493 16509
South of Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire. National Grid Ref. SK 805499Rhaetic Bone Bed, Aust Cliff : England - Avon 9842 14071 14142 14199 15587 16509 24888 29301 30971 31216 34651
OSGB ST 565895 - ST 572901Aust Cliff bone bed (Ord coll, Bristol) : England - Gloucestershire 24888 32304 34651 43605
Publication(s)
La base comprend 20 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 W. A. Sanford. 1894. On bones of an animal resembling the megalosaur, found in the Rhaetic formation at Wedmore. Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society 40(2):227-235
- ↑1 P. M. Galton. 1998. Saurischian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of England: Camelotia (Prosauropoda, Melanorosauridae) and Avalonianus (Theropoda, ?Carnosauria). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 250(4-6):155-172 (https://doi.org/10.1127/pala/250/1998/155)
- ↑1 2 3 P. M. Galton. 2005. Bones of large dinosaurs (Prosauropoda and Stegosauria) from the Rhaetic Bone Bed (Upper Triassic) of Aust Cliff, southwest England. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 24(1):51-74
- ↑1 F. v. Huene. 1908. Eine Zusammenstellung über die englische Trias und das Alter ihrer Fossilien [A compilation on the English Trias and the age of its fossils]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1908:9-17
- ↑1 F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 (https://doi.org/10.1127/mbzdgg/57/1905/345)
- ↑1 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
- ↑1 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica).
- ↑1 2 D. M. Martill and A. Dawn. 1986. Fossil vertebrates from new exposures of the Westbury Formation (Upper Triassic) at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Mercian Geologist 10(2):127-133
- ↑1 2 R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204
- ↑1 R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London
- ↑1 R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800173480)
- ↑1 M. T. Carrano. 2025. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria.
- ↑1 M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London (https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-199501000-00008)
- ↑1 2 3 J. W. Davis. 1881. Notes on the fish-remains of the bone-bed at Aust, near Bristol; with the description of some new genera and species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:414-426 (https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1881.037.01-04.38)
- ↑1 S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, and P. M. Barrett, P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477201908002459)
- ↑1 A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London (https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-ix.210.13d)
- ↑1 J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90
- ↑1 2 R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126
- ↑1 R. B. Irmis, W. G. Parker, and S. J. Nesbitt, J. Liu. 2007. Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08912960600719988)
- ↑1 D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2008. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Ornithischia. Journal of the Geological Society, London 165:613-623 (https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492007-154)
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