Also known as Shanks & McEwan Waste Services Ltd. Peterborough
Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kosmoceras jason ammonoid zone, Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• "The specimen lay mainly within bed 10, but also within bed 11 of the Jason Zone and Subzone of the Lower Oxford Clay"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, carbonaceous mudstone and limestone
•"The Lower Oxford Clay is composed predominantly of organic-rich mudstones that on exposure rapidly develop a shale-like fissility" (Hudson & Martill 1991, p. 20-21)
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: shellbed
Collected in 1980s-1990
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,
• LEIUG 90985: University of Leicester, Department of Geology
•PETMG, The Peterborough Museum, Peterborough, United Kingdom
Primary reference: D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92051: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.10.2009, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Metriorhynchus sp. von Meyer 1830 marine crocodile LEIUG 90985, partial skeleton with stomach contents
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