Priodontognathus type (PROXY): Oxfordian, United Kingdom
collected by F. Young 1860

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten vagans Sowerby 1826
Seeley 1875
recombined as Radulopecten vagans
or P. fibrosus
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Iguanodon phillipsii n. sp. Seeley 1869
1 specimen
recombined as Lexovisaurus phillipsi
SMC B53408
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54.0° North, 1.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.6° North, 8.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcareous Grit
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = ?Corallian. Also suggested from Coal Rag (Oxfordian), Great Oolite (Oxfordian), and Wealden/Cambridge Greensand (lower Upper Cretaceous). If from Sussex then the latter is true.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "soft yellow sandstone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:F. Young Collection dates:1860s
Collection method comments: Fossil from the collection of Dr. Forbes Young and presented to Cambridge in 1861; earlier history unknown.
Metadata
Database number:47363
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-02-23 10:21:49 Last modified:2013-04-12 10:45:26
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-23 10:21:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14179.ETE H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

18004ETE T. L. Ford. 2000. A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor. In S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:157-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12684ETE P. M. Galton. 1980. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of England. Géobios 13(6):825-837 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
12681ETE P. M. Galton. 1980. Priodontognathus phillipsii (Seeley), an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic (or possibly Lower Cretaceous) of England. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1980(8):477-489 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25616ETE P. M. Galton. 1983. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Europe. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 182(1-3):1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17349ETE H. G. Seeley. 1875. On the maxillary bone of a new dinosaur (Priodontognathus phillipsii), contained in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 31:439-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43630 H. G. Seeley. 1893. On Omosaurus phillipsi. Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 1892:52-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
30971ETE A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London 1-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]