Gibraltar Quarry, Bletchingdon Station (OUM) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Great Oolite Group, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonaceous claystone

• "clay, with abundance of carbonaceous matter and small masses of wood which has undergone "eremacausis." Selenite...is rather too abundant."

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OUM

Primary reference: J. Phillips. 1870. [A notice of some specimens of Megalosaurian bones in this Museum]. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 26(1):13-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68658: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
"Cetiosaurus giganteus n. sp." = Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
"Cetiosaurus giganteus n. sp." = Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips 1871 sauropod
OUMNM J13617, femur