Bedford marine reptiles: Late/Upper Callovian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Cryptoclididae
|
||||||||||
|
Cryptoclidus eurymerus n. sp.
(Phillips 1871)
|
Phillips 1871 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| Holotype (lost) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Bedfordshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.1° North, 0.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.3° North, 9.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Callovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Callovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Oxford Clay | Member: | Peterborough |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
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,surface (in situ) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collection method comments: CAMSM (Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge), OUMNH (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 119503 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-10-29 01:12:43 | Last modified: | 2013-07-26 16:04:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-29 01:12:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33993. | D. S. Brown. 1981. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 35(4):253-347 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 23773 | ETE | J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos] |