Summertown, Wolvercote (OUM) (unspecific horizon of the Oxford Clay Formation: Callovian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Phillips 1871 1 specimen
Holotype: two cervical and four dorsal vertebrae
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Oxfordshire
Coordinates: 51.8° North, 1.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 19.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Callovian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Oxford Clay Member:Stewartby
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
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:OUM
Metadata
Database number:140699
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Modifier:R. Benson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-15 04:56:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-15 04:56:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31216.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

23773ETE J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]