Christian Malford: Callovian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Ophiotitanous smithi
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Ewin and Thuy 2017 | |||||||||
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Ophiuroidea
- Amphilepidida
- Ophionereididae
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Ophioplax prattii
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Ewin and Thuy 2017 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Caturidae
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Caturus porteri n. sp.
Rayner 1948
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| BMNH 29049 | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotus macrocheirus
Egerton 1845
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Woodward 1895 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH P.7412 (type specimen described by Egerton), P.7413 (both presented by S.P. Pratt, Esq.) | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Pholidophoriformes
- Pholidophoridae
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Pholidophorus sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Woodward 1895 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH 26471-a (purchased 1851), P.4265, P.4634 (Enniskillen Coll.) | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Leptolepidiformes
- Leptolepididae
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Leptolepis macrophthalmus n. sp.
Egerton 1853
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Woodward 1895 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH P.575-6, P.3677 (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.), 46344 (Cunnington Coll.), 20090, 19959 (purchased 1846), 21435 (purchased 1847), P.936, P.5145-46, P.937 (Egerton Coll.), P.4364 (Enniskillen Coll.) | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Aspidorhynchus euodus
Egerton 1845
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Woodward 1895 | 29 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH 40518 (purchased 1867), P.7575 (history unknown), P.967a-b (Egerton Coll.), 46345-a (Cunnington Coll.), P.5147, P.567c (Egerton Coll.), P.4281-2 (Enniskillen Coll.), 29042-44 (purchased 1854), 37319 (purchased 1863), 21430-a (purchased 1847), 46350 (Cunnington Coll.), 21430b, 29045-a (purchased 1854), 46349 (Cunnington Coll.), 40519, 41296, 42295, 46412 (purchased 1867, 1869, 1870, 1875), P.967d (Egerton Coll.), 21430c, 24976, 29047 (purchased 1847, 1850, 1854) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Cryptoclididae
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Plesiosaurus trochanterius
Owen 1840
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Phillips 1871 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Colymbosaurus trochanterius | ||||||||||
| A femur in the collection of the Earl of Enniskillen | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Peloneustes philarchus
(Seeley 1869)
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Lydekker 1889 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| BMNH 46354, a tooth in matrix, purchased 1875 | ||||||||||
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Pliosaurus ferox
(Sauvage 1873)
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Lydekker 1889 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| original and current combination Liopleurodon ferox | ||||||||||
| BMNH 24683, a small tooth, purchased 1850 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Wiltshire |
| Coordinates: | 51.5° North, 2.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.2° North, 8.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Callovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Callovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Oxford Clay | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: probably Jason zone |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified carbonaceous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "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) | |
| Environment: | offshore indet. |
| Geology comments: "accumulated in a wide, shallow (30–50 m deep) epeiric sea" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression,soft parts |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 130656 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham, R. Benson, V. Syverson | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, V. Syverson, R. Benson |
| Modifier: | R. Benson | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-07-12 12:51:01 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-07-12 12:51:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42278. | D. H. Rayner. 1948. The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233(601):287-345 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 62465 | T. A. M. Ewin and B. Thuy. 2017. Brittle stars from the British Oxford Clay: unexpected ophiuroid diversity on Jurassic sublittoral mud bottoms. Journal of Paleontology 91(4):781-798 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson/M. Uhen] | |
| 33960 | R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson] | |
| 46063 | D. M. Martill and J. D. Hudson. 1991. Fossils of the Oxford Clay 1-286 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 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] |
| 38893 | A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |