Isle of Portland, shore below Portland coastguard station, Kimmeridge Clay: Early Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by Mr Richard Cooper (1966), Mr Stephen Bankler-Jukes and a team from the BMNH (1982) 1966, 1982
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Cryptoclididae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| Postcranial skeleton: BMNH R10062 (including DORCM G.181 and bones in the collection of Mr Stephen Bankler-Jukes) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.5° North, 2.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 13.3° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Tithonian | Ammonoid zone: | Pavlovia rotunda |
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 145.06 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Pavlovia rotunda Zone (based on ammonites) of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation | |||||
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: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Mr Richard Cooper (1966), Mr Stephen Bankler-Jukes and a team from the BMNH (1982) | Collection dates: | 1966, 1982 |
| Collection method comments: DORCM, Dorset COunty Museum and private collection of Mr Stephen Bankler-Jukes | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 150922 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-09-17 18:44:43 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-09-17 18:44:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48214. | D. S. Brown. 1984. Discovery of a specimen of the plesiosaur Colymbosaurus trochanterius (Owen) on the Island of Portland. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 105:170 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |