Oakham Quarry (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 8.8° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hook Norton Member (Chipping Norton Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• same level as New Park Quarry

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow limestone

• "a hard cream-coloured limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. I. Gardiner, S. H. Reynolds in 1935-37; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. H. Reynolds. 1939. On a collection of reptilian bones from the Oolite of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Geological Magazine 76(5):193-214 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74835: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus cf. subulidens
 Theropoda -
Tetanurae indet.
Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod
SDM 44.19
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp.
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
ischium, ilium
 Saurischia -
Cetiosaurus sp.
Cetiosaurus sp. Owen 1841 sauropod