Keymer Tile Works, sample 5: Late/Upper Hauterivian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Caudata indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Reptilia
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cf. Tretosternon sp.
Owen 1842
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"? cf. Tretosternon" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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2 types | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dorsetisauridae
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Dorsetisaurus sp.
Hoffstetter 1967
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Reptilia
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Scincomorpha indet.
Camp 1923
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cf. Bernissartia sp.
Dollo 1883
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"? cf. Bernissartia" | ||||||||||
Actinopterygii
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Actinopterygii indet.
Cope 1887
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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] |