Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pictonia baylei-Virgatopavlovia fittoni ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Ancholme Group), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• Kimmeridge Clay Formation [Pictonia baylei-Virgatopavlovia fittoni]
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. F. Blake et al.; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1874. The fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part 1. Pterosauria. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 27(126):1-14 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92096: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2009, edited by Roger Benson, Jonathan Tennant and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pterosauria indet.1, Pterosauria indet.1, "Pterodactylus pleydellii n. sp." = Rhamphorhynchus pleydellii, "Pterodactylus manselii n. sp." = Rhamphorhynchus manselii
"Pterodactylus pleydellii n. sp." = Rhamphorhynchus pleydellii Owen 1874 pterosaur BMNH 42378 (holotype), distal humerus and wing phalanx
"Pterodactylus manselii n. sp." = Rhamphorhynchus manselii Owen 1874 pterosaur BMNH 41970 (holotype), proximal humerus and wing phalanx
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Plesiosauroidea indet.4 Welles 1943 plesiosaur DORCM G.103a-c, 104a-c, six teeth; and a partial vertebra (DORCM G.135)
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"Muraenosaurus brevior n. sp." = Cimoliasaurus brevior4
"Muraenosaurus brevior n. sp." = Cimoliasaurus brevior4 Lydekker 1889 elasmosaur BMNH 41955, first reported by Lydekker (1889, p. 243)
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Kimmerosaurus langhami2 Brown 1981 plesiosaur R1798, partial skull and mandible; no detailed data is avilable, but the specimen almost certainly came from a cliff exposure between Sandsfoot Castle and the old Portland Ferry Bridge described by Damon (1884) (Brown et al. 1986:226))
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"Pliosaurus brachydirus" = Pliosaurus brachydeirus6
"Pliosaurus brachydirus" = Pliosaurus brachydeirus6 Owen 1841 plesiosaur BMNH 41776a (crushed, partial cervical centrum)
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"Muraenosaurus truncatus" = Plesiosaurus truncatus4
"Muraenosaurus truncatus" = Plesiosaurus truncatus4 Owen 1854 plesiosaur Many cervical and dorsal vertebrae found at or near Weymouth
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Tropidemys sp.7, "Pelobatochelys blakei n. gen. n. sp." = Pelobatochelys blakii3, "Tropidemys langi" = Tropidemys langii3
"Pelobatochelys blakei n. gen. n. sp." = Pelobatochelys blakii3 Seeley 1875 turtle BMNH R.2, R.2a, 44177, 44177b, 41235
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