Belle Vue Farm Quarry: Early Berriasian - Middle Berriasian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 7.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Berriasian - Middle Berriasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145 - 140.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Purbeck | Formation: | Lulworth | Member: | Worbarrow Tout |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Cherty Freshwater Mbr now = top of Worbarrow Tout Mbr | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | argillaceous lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: massive limestone; argillaceous micrite and biomicrite | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: shallow brackish and freshwater conditions | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 55496 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-27 14:19:49 | Last modified: | 2022-02-04 03:09:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-27 14:19:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14905. | ETE | P. C. Ensom. 2002. Reptile eggshell, tiny vertebrate remains and globular calcified cartilage from the Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:221-239 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |