Swindon (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the OUM

Primary reference: M. T. Young, S. Sachs, P. Abel, D. Foffa, Y. Herrera and J. J. N. Kitson. 2020. Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(2):494-520 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217278: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.02.2021

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Geosaurini "Mr Passmores specimen" Cau and Fanti 2011 marine crocodile
OUMNH J.1583