Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Monitoring

GCR Site: 813 Otterton Point

Interest: Mid Triassic reptiles

GCR Block: Permian - Triassic Reptilia

SSSI: Otterton Estuary

Site Boundaries: 307700, 81900

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Otterton Point has yielded the best remains of the diagnostic tooth plates, as well as a lower jaw, of the Devon rhynchosaur. As the only fossils, these allow approximate mid-Triassic dating of the Otter Sandstone Formation. This is also the furthest south occurrence of Rhynchosaurus, and it is of interest palaeogeographically. The lower jaw was collected recently, and there is potential for more finds and future research.

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