Sharp's Hill Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sharp's Hill Member (Sharp's Hill Formation), Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Perna bed = Bed 18 and bed 14-15; Asphinctites tenuiplicatus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. M. Galton and H. P. Powell. 1983. Stegosaurian dinosaurs from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of England, the earliest record of the family Stegosauridae. Géobios 16(2):219-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45931: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.12.2004, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 ostracod
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.1 crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet.1 Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.1 ornithischian
Stegosauria indet.2 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
a complete cervical vertebra (OUMNH J.69710), two partial dorsal vertebrae (OUMNH J.48169 & OUMNH J.29770) & many fragmentary vertebrae & ribs (OUMNH J.69709–69718)
 Ornithischia - Fabrosauridae
? Fabrosauridae indet.1 Galton 1972 ornithischian
 Pterosauria -
unclassified
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Charophyta indet.1 Migula 1890