Spyways area quarry, Langton Matravers: Late/Upper Berriasian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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| "large and small tridactyle footprints" | ||||||||||
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= Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Delair and Lander 1973 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 7.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Berriasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 140.60000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Purbeck | Formation: | Durlston | Member: | Stair Hole |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from the "Roach Bed", probably = Durlston Fm., Intermarine Mb.
Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 145242 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-30 08:04:37 | Last modified: | 2022-10-13 14:34:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-30 08:04:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46977. | J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part three: conclusion. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 81:59-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54106 | J. B. Delair and A. B. Lander. 1973. A short history of the discovery of reptilian footprints in the Purbeck Beds of Dorset, with notes on their stratigraphical distribution. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 94:17-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 82858 | W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |