Endcombe Bay: Early Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by R. A. Langham 1967
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| Grange and Benton 1996 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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Metriorhynchidae indet.
Fitzinger 1843
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Grange and Benton 1996 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Cryptoclididae
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Kimmerosaurus langhami n. gen., n. sp.
Brown 1981
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BMNH R8431, single partial skull; R10043, partial skull and mandible | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 13.6° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Tithonian | Ammonoid zone: | Pectinatites pectinatus |
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 145.06 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The specimen was recovered from a detached block of shale coming from about 2 m above the Middle White Stone Band, and is therefore from the upper part of the eastlecottensis Subzone, pectinatus Zone, Upper Kimmerige Clay. The horizon was incorrectly given as rotunda Zone by Brown (1981:301)" (Brown et al. 1986:226) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: "Cliff section at Endcombe Bay consists lithologically of the Crushed Ammonite Shales" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
| Collectors: | R. A. Langham | Collection dates: | 1967 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Egmont Bay | ||
| Database number: | 98477 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | H. Street, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | R. Benson | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-10-07 11:08:10 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-10-07 11:08:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33993. | D. S. Brown. 1981. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 35(4):253-347 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 46685 | D. R. Grange and M. J. Benton. 1996. Kimmeridgian metriorhynchid crocodiles from England. Palaeontology 39(2):497-514 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |