Encombe Bay pterosaur (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pectinatus ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Upper Kimmeridge Clay. Specimen represents bed numbers KC46-49 of Wright & Cox (2001)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; black mudstone

• "The Quarternary examples used as the basis for our Kimmeridgian depositional model represent deep water oceanic environments, whereas the Kimmeridge Clay was deposited in a shallower shelf regime" (Tyson et al. 1979)
• C46-49 consists of organic-rich finely laminated mudstones, interbedded with both fissile and bituminous mudstones, shelly oil shale and coccolith rich laminated limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Etches in 2002

• MJML K, The Etches Collection, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK

Primary reference: M. O'Sullivan and D. M. Martill. 2015. Evidence for the presence of Rhamphorhynchus (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchinae) in the Kimmeridge Clay of the UK. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 126(3):390-401 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178843: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchus etchesi n. sp.
Rhamphorhynchus etchesi n. sp. O'Sullivan and Martill 2015 pterosaur
MJML K-1597