New Park Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Stow-on-the-Wold

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Parkinsonia convergens ammonoid zone, Hook Norton Member (Chipping Norton Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Parkinsonia convergens subzone, Zigzagiceras zigzag zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow limestone

• "a hard cream-colored limestone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. I. Gardiner, S. H. Reynolds in 1935–1939; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. H. Reynolds. 1937. Fossil reptiles of Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Cottonian Naturalist Field Club 26:51-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45932: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.12.2004, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
"Parkinsonia neuffensis" = Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) neuffensis5
"Parkinsonia neuffensis" = Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) neuffensis5 Oppel 1857 ammonite
Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus cf. subulidens5 marine crocodile
Teleosaurus sp.2 Geoffroy 1825 marine crocodile
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.2 ornithischian
Stegosauria indet.3 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
dermal plates
 Theropoda -
 Saurischia -
Cetiosaurus sp.4 Owen 1841 sauropod