Keymer Tile Works, sample 5: Late/Upper Hauterivian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Selachii
Selachii indet.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
1 specimen
Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777
Reptilia
cf. Tretosternon sp. Owen 1842
"? cf. Tretosternon"
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
2 types
Reptilia - Dorsetisauridae
Dorsetisaurus sp. Hoffstetter 1967
Reptilia
Scincomorpha indet. Camp 1923
cf. Bernissartia sp. Dollo 1883
"? cf. Bernissartia"
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:West Sussex
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 0.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 9.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:44 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hauterivian
Age range of interval:136.40000 - 130.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wealden Formation:Weald Clay Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower Weald Clay
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,green,red claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "red-brown/olive mottled clay"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:62637
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-24 14:31:12 Last modified:2022-02-21 03:58:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-24 14:31:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18071.ETE A. C. Milner and S. E. Evans. 1998. First report of amphibians and lizards from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) in England. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:173-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

78161 D. J. Batten and P. A. Austen. 2011. The Wealden of south-east England. In D. J. Batten (ed.), English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:15-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]