New Park Quarry: Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom
collected by C. I. Gardiner, S. H. Reynolds 1935–1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Parkinsonia neuffensis (Oppel 1857)
Reynolds 1939
recombined as Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) neuffensis
Reptilia - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825
Reynolds 1937 27 specimens
    = Steneosaurus cf. subulidens
Reynolds 1939
Teleosaurus sp. Geoffroy 1825
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia
Cetiosaurus sp. Owen 1841
Reynolds 1937 13 specimens
Reptilia - Ornithischia
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
Evans and Milner 1994
Reptilia
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
2 specimens
dermal plates
    = Stegosaurinae indet. Nopcsa 1917
Hoffstetter 1957
    = ? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Galton 1980
    = ? Lexovisaurus vetustus Huene 1910
Galton and Powell 1983
    = Stegosauria indet. Marsh 1877
Maidment et al. 2008
BMNH R5938, STGCM 1944.41
Reptilia - Theropoda
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
Reynolds 1937 26 specimens
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Benton and Spencer 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Gloucestershire
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 1.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.6° North, 8.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:153 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Bathonian Ammonoid zone: Parkinsonia convergens
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Great Oolite Formation:Chipping Norton Limestone Member:Hook Norton
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Parkinsonia convergens subzone, Zigzagiceras zigzag zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a hard cream-colored limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:C. I. Gardiner, S. H. Reynolds Collection dates:1935–1939
Metadata
Also known as:Stow-on-the-Wold
Database number:45932
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano, K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-14 06:23:34 Last modified:2019-05-02 13:00:54
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-14 06:23:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12235. S. H. Reynolds. 1937. Fossil reptiles of Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Cottonian Naturalist Field Club 26:51-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
41617 M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10557ETE S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 303-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12684ETE P. M. Galton. 1980. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of England. Géobios 13(6):825-837 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
12793ETE P. M. Galton. 1985. British plated dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Stegosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(3):211-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67999 P. M. Galton. 2019. Earliest record of an ankylosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): Dermal armor from Lower Kota Formation (Lower Jurassic) of India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 291(2):205-219 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Clapham]
12234ETE P. M. Galton and H. P. Powell. 1983. Stegosaurian dinosaurs from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of England, the earliest record of the family Stegosauridae. Géobios 16(2):219-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
13123ETE R. Hoffstetter. 1957. Quelques observations sur les stégosaurinés [Some observations on stegosaurines]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2e série 29(6):537-547 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29301ETE S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43605 D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2008. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Ornithischia. Journal of the Geological Society, London 165:613-623 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60759 S. H. Reynolds. 1937. A collection of reptilian bones from the Oölite near Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 107:356-357 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25218ETE S. H. Reynolds. 1939. On a collection of reptilian bones from the Oolite of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Geological Magazine 76(5):193-214 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62161 L. F. J. Walrond. 1976. The Stroud dinosaur: recent developments Stroud and District Museum. Museum Journal 76(1):19-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]