Charmouth, E.C.H. Day collection: Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by E. C. H. Day, Esq. F.G.S 1863

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosaurus rostratus Owen 1865
Vincent 2012 1 specimen
BMNH 39514 partial skull with part of the mandible, palate and braincase
    = Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Owen 1865
Plesiosaurus rostratus n. sp. Owen 1865
1 specimen
BMNH 38525 (holotype skeleton)
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Plesiosaurus laticeps n. sp. Owen 1867
Davies 1867 1 specimen
BMNH 40140, partial skeleton and skull
    = Plesiosaurus conybeari Sollas 1881
Delair 1960
recombined as Attenborosaurus conybeari
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.2° North, 3.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian Ammonoid zone: Arnioceras semicostatum - Echinoceras raricostatum
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Charmouth Mudstone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: The Lower Lias section at Charmouth is Sinemurian according to Benton & Spencer (1995) - including the Shales with Beef Member (Arnioceras semicostatum Zone) and Black Ven Marls Member (Echioceras raricostatum Zone) of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:E. C. H. Day, Esq. F.G.S Collection dates:1863
Metadata
Database number:118472
Authorizer:R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:R. Benson, J. Tennant
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-10-14 22:09:49 Last modified:2021-02-17 20:41:17
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-14 22:09:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38162. R. Owen. 1865. Part I. Sauropterygia. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations 17(75):1-40 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

15587ETE M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant]
45496 W. Davies. 1867. New species of Plesiosaurus. Geological Magazine 4(33):144 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
31216ETE J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]
45346 P. Vincent. 2012. Re-description of a basal plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of England. Journal of Paleontology 86(1):167-176 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]