Swyre, Dorset (UCL): Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom
collected 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ornithischia
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia - Fabrosauridae
"Fabrosauridae" indet. Galton 1972
    = ? Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholidae indet. (Cope 1875)
original and current combination Goniopholididae
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia - Choristodera
Choristodera indet. Cope 1876
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys sp. Gilmore 1928
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia
Lepidosauromorpha indet. Benton 1983
Evans and Milner 1994
Lepidosauromorpha informal indet. A Benton 1983
"Kirtlington Reptile A"
Reptilia - Sphenodontia
Sphenodontia indet. (Jaekel 1910)
Reptilia - Testudines
Cryptodira indet. Cope 1868
Evans and Milner 1994
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Evans and Milner 1994
synonym of Testudines
unclassified
Therapsida indet. Broom 1905
Evans and Milner 1994
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae indet. Cope 1884
Evans and Milner 1994
Stereognathus sp. Charlesworth 1854
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Caudata informal indet. A Scopoli 1777
"Kirtlington Salamander A"
Marmorerpeton sp. Evans et al. 1988
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Evans and Milner 1994
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Discoglossidae
Eodiscoglossus sp. Villalta 1957
    = Discoglossidae indet. Günther 1859
Evans and Milner 1994
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 8.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Bathonian
Age range of interval:167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Great Oolite Formation:Forest Marble
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "cross-bedded calcirudite sequences with fine seams (1-2 cm) of grits and clay grits"
Environment:crevasse splay
Geology comments: Paleoenvironment is similar to that at Watton
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1976
Metadata
Database number:57125
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-12-02 11:21:51 Last modified:2014-07-25 10:00:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-02 11:21:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31250.ETE S. E. Evans. 1992. Small reptiles and amphibians from the Forest Marble (Middle Jurassic) of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 113:201-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

10557ETE S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 303-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52039 J. D. Gardner and M. Böhme. 2008. Review of the Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia), with comments on the paleoecological preferences of European Tertiary albanerpetontids. In J. T. Sankey & S. Baszio (ed.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography 178-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]