Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Stonesfield Slates Member (Taynton Limestone Formation), Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, brown, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Platt in 1755–1757; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. Platt. 1758. An Account of the fossile Thigh-bone of a large Animal, dug up at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 50(68):524-527 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59716: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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cf. Cetiosaurus oxoniensis2 Phillips 1871 sauropod vertebrae; hippopotamus or rhinoceros "or some such large animal"
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