Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 9.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pectinatites wheatleyensis ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• "approximately 1 m below the top of the Kimmeridge Clay" PJW: Was Kimmeridgian, but Pectinatites wheatleyensis zone is Early Tithonian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Forbes in 1958
Primary reference: C. McGowan. 1976. The description and phenetic relationships of a new ichthyosaur genus from the Upper Jurassic of England. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13(5):668-683 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106362: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Grendelius mordax n. gen. n. sp." = Brachypterygius extremus
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Cephalopoda | |
Subplanites sp. ammonite |