Ely, non-specific locality: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Enaliochelys chelonia n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1869
Holotype: A partial postcranial disarticulated skeleton corresponding to numbers CAMSM J29898 to CAMSM J29955; Referred material: CAMSM J29960, CAMSM J29961, CAMSM J29964, CAMSM J29965, several fragments of costal plates and of the free region of the dorsal ribs, all of them from the type locality and horizon
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.4° North, 0.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.1° North, 9.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kimmeridge Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:167751
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-03-31 02:22:00 Last modified:2015-03-31 02:22:00
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-31 02:22:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
54781. A. Pérez-García. 2015. New data on the poorly-known Late Jurassic European turtles Thalassemys and Enaliochelys and description of a new basal eucryptodiran taxon. Iberian Journal of Geology 41(1):21-30 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]