Gillingham (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Pope-Bartlett, Esq. in 1927

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141830: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Pliosauroidea indet. Welles 1943 plesiosaur
BMNH R.5479, a femur, "undescribed taxon"
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus macromerus Phillips 1871 plesiosaur
BMNH R. 1246. The centrum of a dorsal vertebra agreeing with the specimen figured by Phillips, p. 356, fig. 150, and referred to the present species ; from the Kimeridge Clay of Gillingham, Dorsetshire. Length 0,108 (4*25 inches), height 0,157 (6-2 inches), width 0,159 (6*3 inches). The base of the neural canal is narrow, and moderately expanded at the two extremities. Acquired about 1868.