Long Marston (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Long-Marston clay pits

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxford Clay Formation (Ancholme Group), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100519: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus indet.
Steneosaurus indet. Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
vertebrae
 Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Plesiosaurus oxoniensis n. sp.
Plesiosaurus oxoniensis n. sp. Phillips 1871 plesiosaur
Six articulated cervical vertebrae figured page 308, diagram 63. Other postcrania are figured and described but their provenance is not stated.