Hart Hill, Charing: Cenomanian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Coniasaurus cf. crassidens
Owen 1850
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH R62 (partial left dentary) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Kent |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 0.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 2.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chalk | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Kennedy (1969) indicates that the contact of the Gault Clay-Lower Chalk (East Wear Bay Chalk) passes through Hart Hill, at Charing, Kent; Lower Chalk exposures are significant in pits and roadcuts in that area. It is probable that BMNH R62 was collected from either the East Wear Bay Chalk of Abbott's Cliff CHalk (using the nomenclature of Robinson [1986, 1987]" (Caldwell et al 1999) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Coniasaurus referred specimen locality | ||
| Database number: | 118448 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | R. Benson | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-10-14 19:15:09 | Last modified: | 2011-10-14 03:51:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-14 19:15:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38152. | M. W. Caldwell and J. A. Cooper. 1999. Redescription, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Coniasaurus crassidens Owen, 1850 (Squamata) from the Lower Chalk (Cretaceous; Cenomanian) of SE England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 127:423-452 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |