Isle of Sheppey Eosuchus: Ypresian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Crocodilus spenceri Buckland 1836
Lydekker 1888
    = Eosuchus sp.
Brochu 2006
NHMUK R41 (partial skull consisting of braincase and skull table, with a fragment of the lower jaw and the atlas intercentrum attached to the ventral surface)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Kent
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 0.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 1.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:London Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:143486
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-24 02:51:54 Last modified:2018-12-12 11:01:03
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-24 02:51:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46495. C. A. Brochu. 2006. Eosuchus (Crocodylia, Gavialoidea) from the Lower Eocene of the Isle of Sheppey, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):466-470 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

14142ETE R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]