Cropwell plesiosaur: Rhaetian - Hettangian, United Kingdom
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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| NOTNH 1987.G.60 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Nottinghamshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.9° North, 1.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.3° North, 9.0° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic - Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic - Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian - Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 - Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian - Hettangian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 205.7 - 199.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Lias | Formation: | Scunthorpe Mudstone | Member: | Barnstone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Collection size: | 1 individuals |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 99398 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. Street |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-11-09 13:47:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-09 13:47:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34171. | R. Forrest. 1998. A possible early elasmosaurian plesiosaur from the Triassic/Jurassic boundary of Nottinghamshire. Mercian Geologist 14(3):135-143 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |