Encombe Bay pterosaur: Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by S. Etches 2002
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Pterosauria
- Rhamphorhynchidae
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| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| MJML K-1597 | ||||||||||
| 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, 13.1° 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: | Tithonian | Ammonoid zone: | Pectinatus |
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Kimmeridge Clay. Specimen represents bed numbers KC46-49 of Wright & Cox (2001)
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,black mudstone |
| Lithology description: C46-49 consists of organic-rich finely laminated mudstones, interbedded with both fissile and bituminous mudstones, shelly oil shale and coccolith rich laminated limestones | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: "The Quarternary examples used as the basis for our Kimmeridgian depositional model represent deep water oceanic environments, whereas the Kimmeridge Clay was deposited in a shallower shelf regime" (Tyson et al. 1979) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | S. Etches | Collection dates: | December 2002 |
| Collection method comments: MJML K, The Etches Collection, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 178843 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | F. Villegas-Garin | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-05-18 04:59:16 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-05-18 04:59:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59178. | M. O'Sullivan and D. M. Martill. 2015. Evidence for the presence of Rhamphorhynchus (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchinae) in the Kimmeridge Clay of the UK. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 126(3):390-401 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 63891 | R. V. Tyson, W. O. Wilson, and C. Downie. 1979. A stratified water column environmental model for the type Kimmeridge Clay. Nature 277(5695):377-380 [M. Uhen/F. Villegas-Garin] |