Hypsilophodon Bed, Cowleaze Chine: Late/Upper Barremian, United Kingdom
collected by J. S. Bowerbank, G. A. Mantell, W. Fox 1849, 1868
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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? Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Galton 1974 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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? Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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Galton 1974 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Camptosaurus valdensis n. sp.
Lydekker 1889
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Galton 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Euornithopoda | ||||||||||
BMNH R167, femur | ||||||||||
Iguanodon mantelli
Meyer 1832
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2 individuals | |||||||||
(2 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Hypsilophodon foxii
Huxley 1870
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Huxley 1870 | |||||||||
BMNH 28707 + 39560-1, articulated skeleton (paratype). BMNH R12444, proximal right femur; also BM R.5862, R.5863, and R.5380 (described by Swinton 1936); MIWG 4127 | ||||||||||
Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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Fox 1869 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
BMNH R196, R197 | ||||||||||
= Hypsilophodon foxii n. gen., n. sp.
Huxley 1870
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Hulke 1874 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dryosauridae
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? Dryosaurus canaliculatus n. sp.
Galton 1975
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Galton 1975 | 1 individual | ||||||||
recombined as Valdosaurus canaliculatus | ||||||||||
BMNH R185, R186, pair of femora. (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Isle of Wight |
Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 1.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.9° North, 9.3° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Cretaceous | ||
*International age/stage: | Berriasian - Albian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Barremian | ||
Age range of interval: | 130.00000 - 125.45000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red carbonaceous marl |
Secondary lithology: | brown sandy claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "The bed consists of redish-blue marl. In the lower part of the Bed there are, in addition, several rocky bands of varying thickness."; "sandy clay-stone"; "light brown sand rock" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
Collectors: | J. S. Bowerbank, G. A. Mantell, W. Fox | Collection dates: | 1849, 1868 |
Collection method comments: single block broken in two, found by workmen, and sent to different collectors |
Metadata
Database number: | 26791 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler | Enterer: | M. Carrano, K. Maguire, R. Butler |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-11-01 07:32:48 | Last modified: | 2022-10-25 10:07:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-11-01 07:32:48 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14133. | ETE | R. Owen. 1855. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part II. Dinosauria (Iguanodon). [Wealden]. The Palaeontographical Society, London 1854:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
31505 | P. M. Barrett. 1996. The first known femur of Hylaeosaurus armatus and re-identification of ornithopod material in The Natural History Museum, London. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology) 52(2):115-118 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
15587 | ETE | M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant] |
78163 | W. T. Blows. 1978. Reptiles on the Rocks 2:1-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
58861 | W. T. Blows. 1983. William Fox (1813–1881), a neglected dinosaur collector from the Isle of Wight. Archives of Natural History 11(2):299-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
69376 | H. W. Bristow, C. Reid, and A. Straham. 1889. The Geology of the Isle of Wight. 2nd edition xiv-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
29198 | ETE | W. Fox. 1869. On the skull and bones of an Iguanodon. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Norwich 1868:64-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
5672 | ETE 1428 | P. M. Galton. 1974. The ornithischian dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 25:1-152 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano] |
25599 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1975. English hypsilophodontid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia). Palaeontology 18(4):741-752 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
25580 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 2001. The mode of life of Hypsilophodon, the small supposedly arboreal ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England. DinoPress 3:32-35/-93-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
31500 | P. M. Galton. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
12770 | ETE | P. M. Galton and P. Taquet. 1982. Valdosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Africa. Géobios 15(2):147-159 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |
7421 | J. W. Hulke. 1873. Contribution to the anatomy of Hypsilophodon foxii. An account of some recently acquired remains. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29:522-532 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
7422 | J. W. Hulke. 1874. Supplemental note on the anatomy of Hypsilophodon foxii. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:18-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12803 | T. H. Huxley. 1870. On Hypsilophodon foxii, a new dinosaurian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Quarterly Review of the Geological Society of London 26:3-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
14142 | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
82927 | D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2001. Ornithopod dinosaurs. In D. M. Martill & D. Naish (ed.), Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:60-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
14067 | ETE | R. Owen. 1874. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations. Supplement no. V. Dinosauria (Iguanodon). [Wealden and Purbeck.]. The Palaeontographical Society, London 1873:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
51648 | J. D. Radley. 1996. Type, figured and cited specimens in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology (Isle of Wight, England). The Geological Curator 6(5):187-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
78160 | S. C. Sweetman. 2011. The Wealden of the Isle of Wight. In D. J. Batten (ed.), English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:52-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
30971 | ETE | A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London 1-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |