Swindon Brick and Tile Company brick pit: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom
collected by J. Shopland, Davies 1874–1875, 1894
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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Asteracanthus sp.
Agassiz 1836
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Davies 1876 | |||||||||
spines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Omosaurus armatus n. gen., n. sp.
Marsh 1877
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1 individual | |||||||||
recombined as Dacentrurus armatus | ||||||||||
BMNH 46013 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Bothriospondylus suffossus n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1875
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7 specimens | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Neosauropoda | ||||||||||
BMNH 44592-5, 44589-91 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Pleiosaurus ? macromerus
Phillips 1871
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Goddard 1896 | 1 individual | ||||||||
1774 Dev. M. | ||||||||||
= Bathyspondylus swindoniensis n. gen., n. sp.
Delair 1982
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Delair 1982 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Pliosaurus brachydeirus
(Owen 1841)
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1 individual | |||||||||
= Pliosaurus sp.
Owen 1841
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Davies 1876 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Wiltshire |
Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 1.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.2° North, 8.1° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 153 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 155.70000 - 150.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | Member: | Lower | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: exact horizon unknown, but believed to be Aulacostephanus pseduomutabilis and/or Rasenia mutabilis Zones (now = Aulacostephanus eudoxus and Aulacostephanus mutabilis Zones) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | concretionary lithified claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: bones in septarian nodules in the clay | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
Collectors: | J. Shopland, Davies | Collection dates: | 1874–1875, 1894 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Omosaurus/Dacentrurus type | ||
Database number: | 47421 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-02-24 10:13:27 | Last modified: | 2021-03-31 15:22:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-24 10:13:27 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14124. | ETE | R. Owen. 1875. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part II. (Genera Bothriospondylus, Cetiosaurus, Omosaurus). 29:15-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
55043 | Anonymous. 1897. Omosaurus or Stegosaurus, from the Kimmeridge Clay of Swindon. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 29:197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
53791 | W. Davies. 1876. On the exhumation and development of a large reptile (Omosaurus armatus), from the Kimmeridge Clay, Swindon, Wilts. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 2 3(5):193-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
26086 | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1973. The dinosaurs of Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 68:1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
47142 | J. B. Delair. 1982. New and little-known Jurassic reptiles from Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 76:155-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12793 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1985. British plated dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Stegosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(3):211-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
25691 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1991. Postcranial remains of stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Upper Jurassic of France and Portugal. Geologica et Palaeontologica 25:299-327 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12728 | ETE | P. M. Galton and G. Boiné. 1980. A stegosaurian dinosaur femur from the Kimmeridge Beds (Upper Jurassic) of the Cap de la Hève, Normandy. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et Amis Muséum du Havre 17(4 (4e tr.)):31-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
47143 | E. H. Goddard. 1896. Pleiosaurus macromerus (?) from the Kimeridge Clay of Swindon. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 28:179-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
62949 | E. Hennig. 1915. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 9: Stegosauria 1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17154 | ETE | F. A. Lucas. 1902. Paleontological notes. The generic name Omosaurus. A new generic name for Stegosaurus marshi. Science, new series 16(402):435 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
14142 | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
29301 | ETE | S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
30971 | ETE | A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London 1-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |