Weymouth Kimmeridge Clay Formation (non-specific locality data): Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by J. F. Blake et al.
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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Pterodactylus sp.
Cuvier 1809
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Carpals | ||||||||||
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= Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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Benton and Spencer 1995 | |||||||||
| Lydekker 1891 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH 41179, quadrate | ||||||||||
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= Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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Benton and Spencer 1995 | |||||||||
| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| BMNH 42378 (holotype), distal humerus and wing phalanx | ||||||||||
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Pterodactylus manselii n. sp.
Owen 1874
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BMNH 41970 (holotype), proximal humerus and wing phalanx | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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Metriorhynchidae indet.
Fitzinger 1843
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Grange and Benton 1996 | |||||||||
| BMNH 43032, 44179, 46058a, b, c, 49511 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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| Lydekker 1889 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH 41776a (crushed, partial cervical centrum) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Muraenosaurus truncatus
(Owen 1854)
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Delair 1960 | |||||||||
| Many cervical and dorsal vertebrae found at or near Weymouth | ||||||||||
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Plesiosauroidea indet.
Welles 1943
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Delair 1960 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| DORCM G.103a-c, 104a-c, six teeth; and a partial vertebra (DORCM G.135) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Cryptoclididae
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| Brown et al. 1986 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| R1798, partial skull and mandible; no detailed data is avilable, but the specimen almost certainly came from a cliff exposure between Sandsfoot Castle and the old Portland Ferry Bridge described by Damon (1884) (Brown et al. 1986:226)) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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| Delair 1960 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH 41955, first reported by Lydekker (1889, p. 243) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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| Pérez-García 2015 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| NHMUK 44178b, a neural plate | ||||||||||
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Pelobatochelys blakei n. gen., n. sp.
(Seeley 1875)
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Delair 1958 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH R.2, R.2a, 44177, 44177b, 41235 | ||||||||||
| Delair 1958 | ||||||||||
| "mostly detached shell bones" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° North, 12.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian | Ammonoid zone: | Pictonia baylei-Virgatopavlovia fittoni |
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 145.06 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Kimmeridge Clay Formation [Pictonia baylei-Virgatopavlovia fittoni] | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collectors: | J. F. Blake et al. |
Metadata
| Database number: | 92096 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, P. Mannion, R. Benson, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Butler, J. Tennant, M. Carrano, R. Benson |
| Modifier: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-29 09:20:59 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-29 09:20:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30979. | R. Owen. 1874. The fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part 1. Pterosauria. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 27(126):1-14 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |
| 46822 | D. S. Brown, A. C. Milner, and M. A. Taylor. 1986. New material of the plesiosaur Kimmerosaurus langhami Brown from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural Histroy 40(5):225-234 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 47078 | J. B. Delair. 1958. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part one. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 79:47-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 31216 | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson] |
| 46685 | D. R. Grange and M. J. Benton. 1996. Kimmeridgian metriorhynchid crocodiles from England. Palaeontology 39(2):497-514 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 33960 | R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson] | |
| 14165 | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1891. On certain ornithosaurian and dinosaurian remains. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 47:41-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 54780 | A. Pérez-García. 2015. Revision of the British record of Tropidemys (Testudines, Plesiochelyidae) and recognition of its presence in the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):11-20 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |