Also known as Whitby
Where: England, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Whitby Mudstone Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1884
Primary reference: A. S. Smith and G. J. Dyke. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften 95:975-980 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90448: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Steneosaurus brevior" = Mystriosaurus laurillardi
"Steneosaurus brevior" = Mystriosaurus laurillardi Kaup 1837 marine crocodile | |
"Leptopterygius acutirostris" = Ichthyosaurus acutirostris
"Leptopterygius acutirostris" = Ichthyosaurus acutirostris Owen 1840 ichthyosaur | |
Rhomaleosaurus propinquus, "Plesiosaurus cramptoni n. sp." = Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni
Rhomaleosaurus propinquus plesiosaur
"Plesiosaurus cramptoni n. sp." = Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Carte and Baily 1863 plesiosaur NMING F8785
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