Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 7.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Eyford Member (Cotswold Slate Formation), Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• early Middle Bathonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray sandstone and gray, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 303-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57120: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 02.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell 1827 tetanuran theropod | |
Rhamphocephalus sp. Seeley 1880 pterosaur | |
Teleosaurus sublidens marine crocodile
Teleosaurus sp. Geoffroy 1825 marine crocodile
Steneosaurus sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
Steneosaurus brevidens Phillips 1871 marine crocodile | |
Asteroidea | |
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830 sea star | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Insecta | |
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster | |
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Myophorella impressa clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |