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
Galton 1974
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
? Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842
Galton 1974
Reptilia
Camptosaurus valdensis n. sp. Lydekker 1889
Galton 2009 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Euornithopoda
BMNH R167, femur
Iguanodon mantelli Meyer 1832
2 individuals
(2 measurements)
    = Hypsilophodon foxii Huxley 1870
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
Fox 1869 2 individuals
BMNH R196, R197
    = Hypsilophodon foxii n. gen., n. sp. Huxley 1870
Hulke 1874
Reptilia - Dryosauridae
? Dryosaurus canaliculatus n. sp. Galton 1975
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
Geological group:Wealden Formation:Wessex
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from the "Hypsilophodon Bed", ca. 2.5 m below top of Wessex Formation (= Wealden Marls) [not from Vectis Fm.]
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:

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15587ETE 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]
29198ETE 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]
5672ETE 1428P. 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]
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12770ETE 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]
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30971ETE 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]