Kineton Thorns Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cotswold Slate Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; slate

• Cotswold Slate was deposited under estaurine or shallow offshore marine conditions. Ripple marks and invertebrate borings suggest very shallow marine conditions.

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57121: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 02.12.2005, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
 Crocodylia -
? Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
OUM J28266 (holotype), skull roof
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866