Cree's Quarry, Street (bed 30): Rhaetian - Hettangian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Plesiosaurus etheridgii n. sp.
Huxley 1858
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Huxley 1858 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii | ||||||||||
| GSM 51235 (holotype partial skeleton) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Somerset |
| Coordinates: | 51.1° North, 2.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.9° North, 0.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian - Hettangian |
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Penarth | Formation: | White Lias |
| Local section: | Cree's Quarry | Local bed: | 30 |
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | massive,fine,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 96605 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. Street |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-15 11:00:50 | Last modified: | 2014-01-14 16:57:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-06-15 11:00:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32796. | T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 31216 | ETE | 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] |
| 38377 | T. H. Huxley. 1858. On a new species of Plesiosaurus from Street, near Glastonbury; with remarks on the structure of the atlas and axis vertebrae, and of the cranium, in that genus. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 14:281-294 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |