Mapperley Park tracksite: Anisian, United Kingdom
collected by H. H. Swinnerton 1910

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium coburgense Aumann 1957
Sarjeant 1967 1 specimen
PC 3317
    = Chirotheriidae indet. Abel 1935
King et al. 2005
Swinnertonichnus mapperleyensis n. gen., n. sp. Sarjeant 1967
Sarjeant 1967 3 specimens
PC 3315
Coelurosaurichnus sp. Huene 1941
Sarjeant 1967 1 specimen
PC 3316
    = Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835
King et al. 2005
? Otozoum swinnertoni n. sp. Sarjeant 1970
Sarjeant 1970 1 specimen
"type A" prints; PC 4238
unclassified
Varanopus aff. curvidactylus Moodie 1929
Sarjeant 1967
PC 3365
Microsauropus aff. acutipes Moodie 1929
Sarjeant 1967
PC 3365
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Nottingham
Coordinates: 53.0° North, 1.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.0° North, 11.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Anisian
Age range of interval: 247.2 - 242 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mercia Mudstone Formation:Keuper Waterstones
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from the "Keuper Waterstones", lower Ladinian - now lower Merica Mudstone Group (Anisian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:H. H. Swinnerton Collection dates:1910
Metadata
Also known as:Sherwood suburb
Database number:83053
Authorizer:M. Carrano, A. Dunhill Enterer:M. Carrano, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-08-06 13:47:26 Last modified:2022-10-13 14:05:32
Access level:the public Released:2008-08-06 13:47:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62033. H. H. Swinnerton. 1910. Organic remains in the Trias of Nottingham. Geological Magazine, decade 5 7(5):229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63323 G. R. Demathieu and H. Haubold. 1972. Stratigraphische Aussagen der Tetrapodenfährten aus der terrestrischen Trias Europas [Stratigraphic statements about the tetrapod tracks from the European terrestrial Triassic]. Geologie 21:802-836 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67305 M. J. King, W. A. S. Sarjeant, D. B. Thompson and G. Tresise. 2005. A Revised Systematic Ichnotaxonomy and Review of the Vertebrate Footprint Ichnofamily Chirotheriidae from the British Triassic. Ichnos 12(4):241-299 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
62424 W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1967. Fossil footprints from the Middle Triassic of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The Mercian Geologist 2:327-341 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27892ETE W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1970. Fossil footprints from the Middle Triassic of Nottinghamshire and the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire. The Mercian Geologist 3(3):269-282 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82858 W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62737 W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1975. Fossil tracks and impressions of vertebrates. In R. D. Frey (ed.), The Study of Trace Fossils 283-324 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33365ETE T. Thulborn. 2006. On the tracks of the earliest dinosaurs: implications for the hypothesis of dinosaurian monophyly. Alcheringa 30:273-311 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]