Potton bonebed (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Craterosaurus type

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 10.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Potton Nodule Bed Member (Woburn Sand Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• Potton Sands = Woburn Sands; possibly reworked. "it may be as new as the upper part of the Lower Greensand" (Seeley, 1874).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, phosphatic, brown sandstone

• "the bed of phosphatic nodules which there occurs in the brown sands, named by Conybeare and Fitton Woburn sands"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1874. On the base of a large lacertian cranium from the Potton Sands, presumably dinosaurian. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:690-692 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36581: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet.2 ichthyosaur
5 vertebrae, 4 teeth, 1 paddle bone
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.2 Owen 1842 crocodilian
teeth
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Teleosaurus sp.2 Geoffroy 1825 marine crocodile
5 teeth, 2 scutes
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Dakosaurus sp.2 Quenstedt 1856 marine crocodile
2 vertebrae, 6 teeth
 Ornithischia -
Craterosaurus pottonensis n. gen. n. sp., Iguanodon sp.2, "Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus3
Craterosaurus pottonensis n. gen. n. sp. Seeley 1874 ornithischian
SMV B.28814
Iguanodon sp.2 Mantell 1825 ornithopod
vertebrae
"Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus3 Holl 1829 ornithopod
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
"Megalosaurus bucklandi" = Megalosaurus bucklandii1
"Megalosaurus bucklandi" = Megalosaurus bucklandii1 Mantell 1827 tetanuran theropod
BMNH 42028
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.2 de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
7 vertebrae, 5 limb bones
Polyptychodon sp.2 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
teeth
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus sp.2 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
9 vertebrae, 5 teeth, 3 "paddle ossicles", 2 metacarpals 1 ?ulna