Swanage (general) (BMNH): Berriasian, United Kingdom
collected by Cunningham 1870
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Aspidorhynchus fisheri
Egerton 1854
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Egerton 1854 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Pholidophoriformes
- Pholidophoridae
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Pholidophorus granulatus
Egerton 1854
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Egerton 1854 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Macrosemiidae
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Histionotus angularis
Egerton 1854
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Egerton 1854 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotus minor
Agassiz 1833
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Woodward 1895 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH 36080, 36081, 46419, 36084, 40655, 46411 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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cf. Camptosaurus hoggii
(Owen 1874)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH 46785 | ||||||||||
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= Euornithopoda indet.
Sereno 1986
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Galton 2009 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
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Asteracanthus verrucosus n. sp.
Egerton 1854
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Egerton 1854 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Hybodontoidea | ||||||||||
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Asteracanthus semiverrucosus n. sp.
Egerton 1854
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Egerton 1854 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Hybodontoidea | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 7.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Berriasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Purbeck |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Cunningham | Collection dates: | 1870s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 52301 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Vazquez |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-03 08:34:33 | Last modified: | 2015-01-20 16:57:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-03 08:34:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11798. | ETE | D. B. Norman and P. M. Barrett. 2002. Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:161-189 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 43798 | P. Egerton. 1854. On some new genera and species of fossil fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 13:433-436 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham] | |
| 31500 | P. M. Galton. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 38893 | A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |