Beagle Pit, Hartwell: Berriasian, United Kingdom
collected by Alstone 1893-1894
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Reptilia
- Testudines
|
||||||||||
|
Cryptodira indet.
Cope 1868
|
Benton and Spencer 1995 | |||||||||
| BUCCM Lee Coll. 3948 | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Sauria
|
||||||||||
|
Sauria indet.
MacCartney 1802
|
Delair 1993 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| tooth, BCM | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
|
Megalosaurus sp.
Parkinson 1822
|
Woodward 1895 | |||||||||
| BMNH R2566, R2567, R2821 teeth | ||||||||||
|
= cf. Allosauroidea indet.
Currie and Zhao 1994
|
Milner 2002 | |||||||||
|
Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
|
Benton and Spencer 1995 | |||||||||
| BUCCM 467.22 | ||||||||||
|
? Stegosauria indet.
Marsh 1877
|
Benton and Spencer 1995 | |||||||||
| BUCCM 9.43 | ||||||||||
|
= ? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
|
Maidment et al. 2008 | |||||||||
| = AYBCM 9.43 | ||||||||||
|
Pelorosaurus humerocristatus
(Lydekker 1888)
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Duriatitan humerocristatus | ||||||||||
| teeth | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Crocodilia
|
||||||||||
|
Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
|
Delair 1993 | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Crocodylia | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Buckinghamshire |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 0.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.7° North, 8.8° 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: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Alstone | Collection dates: | 1893-1894 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Bugle Pit | ||
| Database number: | 52674 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano, K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-16 11:07:00 | Last modified: | 2013-06-24 14:11:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-16 11:07:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14172. | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1893. On two dinosaurian teeth from Aylesbury. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 49:566-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 15587 | ETE | M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant] |
| 31249 | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1992. The occurrence of megalosaurs in the Portlandian of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 113:196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 31457 | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1993. Reptilia from the Portland Stone (Upper Jurassic) of England: a preliminary survey of the material and the literature. Modern Geology 18:331-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 29301 | ETE | S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 24418 | ETE | A. C. Milner. 2002. Theropod dinosaurs of the Purbeck Limestone Group, southern England. In A. R. Milner & D. J. Batten (eds.), Life and Environments in Purbeck Times. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:191-201 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 17397 | ETE | A. S. Woodward. 1895. Note on megalosaurian teeth discovered by Mr. J. Alstone in the Portlandian of Aylesbury. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 14:31-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |