Lyme Regis: Pinhay Bay (Lower Lias, general) (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Charmouth

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.3° N, 11.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lias Group, Early/Lower Hettangian to Early/Lower Hettangian (201.4 - 184.2 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Also in OUMNH collection

Primary reference: A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1994. A juvenile plesiosaur (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Lower Lias (Hettangian: Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England: a pliosauroid-plesiosauroid intermediate?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112:151-178 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118938: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 18.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
"Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus" = Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus1, "Plesiosaurus macromus n. sp." = Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus2, Plesiosaurus platydeirus n. sp.1, Plesiosaurus macrocephalus1
"Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus" = Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus1 Conybeare 1824 plesiosaur
"This species... is commonly met with at Lyme Regis"
"Plesiosaurus macromus n. sp." = Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus2 Conybeare 1824 plesiosaur
OUMNH J.28587 (holotype partial postcranium) - Philpotts collection (collected by Mary Anning)
Plesiosaurus platydeirus n. sp.1 Owen 1854 plesiosaur
Holotype 1 cervical and 1 caudal vertebra
Plesiosaurus macrocephalus1 Owen 1840 plesiosaur
OUMNH J.10540 (vertebra) 'very probably referable to this species' (p. 55)
 Plesiosauria - Rhomaleosauridae
Anningasaura lymense n. gen. n. sp.3 Vincent and Benson 2012 plesiosaur
BMNH 49202 (holotype skull and cervical vertebrae)
Eurycleidus arcuatus Owen 1840 plesiosaur
OUMNH J.28585 (juvenile partial skull and skeleton) - Philpotts collection [Jaw and propodial in Philpott collection and now in the OUMNH, plus BMNH 2124 and 40094 (teeth)]
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
"Plesiosaurus hawkinsi" = Thalassiodracon hawkinsii1
"Plesiosaurus hawkinsi" = Thalassiodracon hawkinsii1 Owen 1840 plesiosaur
"In Dorset, specimens of P. hawkinsi have been found int he Lias of Lyme Regis" (p. 54)