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Reptilia
- Procolophonidae
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Telerpeton elginense n. gen., n. sp.
Mantell 1852
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2 individuals | |||||||||
synonym of Leptopleuron lacertinum | ||||||||||
NMS 1891.92.528 (holotype; also the type of L. lacertinum), articulated skull and skeleton; additional BGS specimen | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Moray |
Coordinates: | 57.7° North, 3.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° North, 0.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lossiemouth Sandstone | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Age of the Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation is based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy, with comparisons made to the faunal assemblages from the lower part of the Maleri Formation (India), the upper part of the Santa Maria Formation (Brazil) and the Ischigualasto Formation (Argentina). This is suggestive of a late Carnian to early Norian age (Benton & Walker 2011).
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Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: General description of Lossiemouth Sandstones: "The Lossiemouth Sandstones are white, buff, yellow, or pinkish. Grain size is usually uniform with grains well-rounded. The rock is composed of quartz, feldspar, and rare brownish chert and quartzite. Cements are usually overgrowths of secondary quartz and feldspar, but calcite and fluorspar may also occur. The sandstones may be finely laminated, but more usually they show large-scale cross-beds on well-weathered surfaces. These features, as well as the absence of pebbles, the rarity of micas and heavy minerals, strongly suggest aeolian deposition". | |
Environment: | dune |
Geology comments: "Foreset analysis indicates a prevailing south-westerly wind forming barchan dunes. Dunes up to 20 m high migrated across the flood plain during arid intervals" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | BGS | ||
Collectors: | William Young | Collection dates: | 1851 |
Collection method comments: NMS (also RSM): National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Metadata
Also known as: | Leptopleuron holotype site | ||
Database number: | 89011 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-04-28 07:49:28 | Last modified: | 2015-06-29 11:33:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-04-28 07:49:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
29845. | G. A. Mantell. 1852. Description of the Telerpeton elginense and observations on supposed fossil ova of batrachians in the Lower Devonian strata of Forfarshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 8:100-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
15587 | ETE | M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant] |
29840 | M. J. Benton and A. D. Walker. 1985. Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and dating of Permo-Triassic reptiles from Elgin, north-east Scotland. Palaeontology 28:207-234 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
29846 | R. Owen. 1851. Vertebrate air-breathing life in the Old Red Sandstone. Literary Gazette 1851:900 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
55639 | R. L. Paton. 1975. A Catalogue of Fossil Vertebrates in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Part Four / Amphibia & Reptilia. Royal Scottish Museum Information Series. Geology 5 1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
34736 | L. K. Saila. 2010. Osteology of Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen, a procolophonoid parareptile from the Upper Triassic of Scotland, with remarks on ontogeny, ecology and affinities. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:1-25 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] |