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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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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)
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