Market Rasen: Early Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom
collected <1824
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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| Owen 1854 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| tooth, RCS | ||||||||||
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Pliosaurus brachydeirus n. gen., n. sp.
(Owen 1841)
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Owen 1841 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| OUMNH J.9245A,B, J.9285, J.9292–9298 (holotype partial skeleton, included in 'Plesiosaurus giganteus' of Conybeare 1824) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates: | 53.4° North, 0.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.4° North, 14.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early Kimmeridgian | Ammonoid zone: | Rasenia cymodoce |
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 152.21 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | Member: | Lower |
| Stratigraphy comments: "The ammonite fauna at Market Rasen has been described as belonging to the Rasenia cymodoce zone of the Lower Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Birkelund et al., 1978)"(Knustsen 2012, p. 267) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | OUM | Collection dates: | <1824 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Market-Raisin | ||
| Database number: | 119665 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Benson, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-10-30 21:33:31 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-30 21:33:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38163. | W. D. Conybeare. 1824. On the discovery of an almost perfect skeleton of the Plesiosaurus. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 1:381-389 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
| 43302 | E. M. Knutsen. 2012. A taxonomic revision of the genus Pliosaurus (Owen, 1841a) Owen, 1841b. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92:259-276 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 68103 | R. Owen. 1841. Odontography; or, a Treatise on the Comparative Anatomy of the Teeth; Their Physiological Relations, Mode of Development, and Microscopic Structure, in the Vertebrate Animals. Part II. Dental System of Reptiles 179-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 14071 | ETE | R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 9842 | R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London 1-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 41491 | R. Owen. 1869. Monographs on the British Fossil Reptilia from the Kimmeridge Clay III: contains Pliosaurus grandis, Pliosaurus trochanterius, and Pliosaurus portlandicus. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 22(98):1-12 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 38384 | L. B. Tarlo. 1960. A review of Upper Jurassic pliosaurs. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series 14(5):147-189 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson] |