Charnel, (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: eudoxus ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• 5 m below the Flats Stone Band

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray mudstone and limestone

• "The Quarternary examples used as the basis for our Kimmeridgian depositional model represent deep water oceanic environments, whereas the Kimmeridge Clay was deposited in a shallower shelf regime" (Tyson et al. 1979)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Etches

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: D. M. Unwin. 1988. A new pterosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay of Kimmeridge, Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural Hisory and Archaeological Society 109:150-153 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92095: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Germanodactylus sp.
Germanodactylus sp. Young 1964 pterosaur
Etches collection K 96, two cervical vertebrae, dorsal vertebra, radius and ulna, wing phalanx, tibia