Swindon: Early Tithonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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| OUMNH J.1583 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Oxfordshire | County: | Wiltshire |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 1.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.4° North, 13.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 145.06 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay | Member: | Upper |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | OUM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 217278 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-02-03 11:25:17 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-02-03 11:25:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 75437. | M. T. Young, S. Sachs, P. Abel, D. Foffa, Y. Herrera and J. J. N. Kitson. 2020. Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(2):494-520 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |