Orton brick pit (bed 8): Middle Callovian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
1 specimen
complete skeleton
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.6° North, 0.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 18.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Callovian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Middle Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Oxford Clay Member:Peterborough
Local section:Peterborough Local bed:8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Oxford Clay
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "fissile shales"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Also known as:Petersborough
Database number:149246
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-07-31 06:03:17 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-31 06:03:17
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47746. D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]