Kimmeridge Bay (Fox collection): Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by Fox 1882

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
1 individual
BMNH R205, an associated series of centra of lumbar and caudal vertebras
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 2.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.3° North, 12.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:4 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Formation:Kimmeridge Clay Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:deep-water indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Fox Collection dates:Purchased 1882
Metadata
Database number:139862
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Modifier:R. Benson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-19 05:49:34 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-19 05:49:34
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

31216ETE J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]