Market Rasen (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Market-Raisin

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.4° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Rasenia cymodoce ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "The ammonite fauna at Market Rasen has been described as belonging to the Rasenia cymodoce zone of the Lower Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Birkelund et al., 1978)"(Knustsen 2012, p. 267)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in <1824; reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: W. D. Conybeare. 1824. On the discovery of an almost perfect skeleton of the Plesiosaurus. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 1:381-389 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119665: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 30.10.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus sp.2 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
tooth, RCS
Pliosaurus brachydeirus n. gen. n. sp.1 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
OUMNH J.9245A,B, J.9285, J.9292–9298 (holotype partial skeleton, included in 'Plesiosaurus giganteus' of Conybeare 1824)