Endcombe Bay: Early Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by R. A. Langham 1967

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Grange and Benton 1996
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchidae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Grange and Benton 1996
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
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]