Also known as Roslyn Pits
Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 9.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Aulacostephanus mutabilis–A. eudoxus ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• Aulacostephanus mutabilis to A. eudoxus zones
•"Lower Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Aulacostephanus mutabilis or Aulacostephanus eudoxus ammonite zone (Lower Kimmeridgian)" (Knutsen 2012, p. 267).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
• CAMSM, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119508: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.10.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dakosaurus maximus" = Dakosaurus maximus4 Plieninger 1846 marine crocodile NHMUK PV OR20283: an isolated tooth, also from Ely
"Dakosaurus lissocephalus n. sp." = Dakosaurus maximus Plieninger 1846 marine crocodile from 'Ely'; CAMSM J29419: incomplete dorsoventrally crushed skull (holotype of D. lissocephalus)
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"Colymbosaurus megadeirus n. sp." = Colymbosaurus trochanterius
"Colymbosaurus megadeirus n. sp." = Colymbosaurus trochanterius Owen 1840 plesiosaur CAMSM J.29596etc (syntype partial postcranial skeleton)
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"Peloneustes aequalis" = Pliosaurus aequalis2, Pliosaurus brachyspondylus, Pliosaurus portentificus n. sp.3, Pliosaurus cf. kevani1, "Pliosaurus brachydirus" = Pliosaurus brachydeirus2, "Plesiosaurus sterrodeirus n. sp." = Pliosaurus brachydeirus, Pliosaurus macromerus2
"Peloneustes aequalis" = Pliosaurus aequalis2 Phillips 1871 plesiosaur BMNH R.1413, cast of a cervical vertebra
Pliosaurus brachyspondylus Owen 1840 plesiosaur CAMSM J.29564 (neotype erected by Tarlo 1959); and J.35991 (partial skeleton reported by Tarlo 1959)
Pliosaurus cf. kevani1 Benson et al. 2013 plesiosaur A subtrihedral tooth from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK is also referred to Pliosaurus cf. kevani (LEICT (New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom) G418.1965.108)
"Pliosaurus brachydirus" = Pliosaurus brachydeirus2 Owen 1841 plesiosaur BMNH 43071 (tooth, fig. 37), 43071a, 43071b, 20282, 28111, R.1251 (teeth)
"Plesiosaurus sterrodeirus n. sp." = Pliosaurus brachydeirus Owen 1841 plesiosaur CAMSM specimen (holotype)
Pliosaurus macromerus2 Phillips 1871 plesiosaur BMNH 37311. Cast of an imperfect tooth of nearly equally large dimensions. The original was obtained from the Kimeridge Clay of Ely, Cambridgeshire, and is preserved in the collection of II. Fisher, Esq., at that town. Presented by R. Stead Jones, Esq., 1863. Plus: 37312-13. Casts of the crowns and part of the root of two slightly smaller teeth. The originals were obtained with that of the preceding specimen. Presented by R. Stead Jones, Esq., 1863
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