Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oxford Clay Formation (Ancholme Group), Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Bones were resting on top of a clay layer, below gray sand layer, all within Oxford Clay. "Probably M. macrocephalus Zone" (Ref 14480). Kellaways Formation???
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and fine-grained, gray, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Leeds in 1874; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. W. Hulke. 1887. Note on some dinosaurian remains in the collection of A. Leeds, Esq. Part I. Ornithopsis leedsii. Part II. Omosaurus, sp. Geological Magazine, decade 3 4:375-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36578: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ornithopsis leedsii n. sp.
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