Peterborough area, Sharp Collection (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; carbonaceous mudstone

• "accumulated in a wide, shallow (30–50 m deep) epeiric sea"
• "The Lower Oxford Clay is composed predominantly of organic-rich mudstones that on exposure rapidly develop a shale-like fissility" (Hudson & Martill 1991, p. 20-21)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sharp in 1876; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Sharp Collection. Purchased, 1876

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141874: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 02.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Peloneustes philarchus
Peloneustes philarchus Seeley 1869 plesiosaur
BMNH 47411, a mandible