Huntsman's Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

• Deposited in estaurine or shallow offshore conditions. Ripple marks and invertebrate borings suggest very shallow marie conditions for this area.
• "a) Sandstone, hard, grey (weathering brown), rarely passing into a brown, irregularly laminated fissile sandstone; b) Limestone, hard, grey, sandy"

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 -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell 1827 tetanuran theropod
 Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphocephalus sp. Seeley 1880 pterosaur
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
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
 Dicondylia -
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail