Rope Lake Head / Freshwater Steps (OUM) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.2° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pectinatites pectinatus ammonoid zone, Upper Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Upper Kimmeridge Clay, Pectinatites pectinatus Zone, P. eastlecottensis Subzone; just below the Freshwater Steps Stone Band

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Langham in 1984; reposited in the OUM

• purchased by OUM in 1992, collected 1984

Primary reference: R. Benson. 2007. A new Jurassic tyrannosauroid from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of Dorset, UK, representing a large-bodied species of the American genus Stokesosaurus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.):47A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48688: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
"Stokesosaurus langhami n. sp." = Juratyrant langhami
"Stokesosaurus langhami n. sp." = Juratyrant langhami Benson 2008 coelurosaur
"new species"; OUM J.3311