Swindon Brick and Tile Works - non-specific collection data: Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchidae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Grange and Benton 1996
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Lydekker 1889 1 specimen
BMNH 47325 right ? ischium
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Lydekker 1889 1 specimen
BMNH 44598, six caudal centra, presented by the Directors of the Swindon Brick and Tile Company in 1873
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Oxfordshire
Coordinates: 51.6° North, 1.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 13.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 145.06 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Kimmeridge Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH,OUM
Collection method comments: BMNH specimens were presented by the Directors of the Swindon Brick and Tile COmpany
Metadata
Database number:114895
Authorizer:R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:R. Benson, J. Tennant
Modifier:R. Benson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-08-25 20:23:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-25 20:23:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
37217. L. B. Tarlo. 1959. Stretosaurus gen. nov., a giant pliosaur form the Kimmeridge Clay. Palaeontology 2(1):39-55 [R. Benson/R. Benson]

Secondary references:

46685 D. R. Grange and M. J. Benton. 1996. Kimmeridgian metriorhynchid crocodiles from England. Palaeontology 39(2):497-514 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
33960 R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson]
23773ETE J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]