Kimmeridge Bay (non-specific collections data): Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauroidea indet.
Welles 1943
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| DORCM G.140a-b, small teeth; plus 'other remains': BMNH R2535, R5808 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Pliosaurus brachyspondylus
(Owen 1840)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Thalassophonea | ||||||||||
| Three anterior dorsal centra (BMNH R.1277) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiochelyidae
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Plesiochelys etalloni
(Pictet and Humbert 1857)
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Anquetin and Chapman 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| basicranium and maxilla fragment (NHMUK R3370) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.3° North, 7.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collection method comments: DORCM, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 140709 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | R. Benson, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2013-03-15 06:13:31 | Last modified: | 2018-11-15 15:41:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-15 06:13:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31216. | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
| 60036 | J. Anquetin and S. D. Chapman. 2016. First report of Plesiochelys etalloni and Tropidemys langii from the Late Jurassic of the UK and the palaeobiogeography of plesiochelyid turtles. Royal Society Open Science 3:150470 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen] |