Rudgwick Brickworks Quarry: Barremian, United Kingdom
collected 1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Polacanthus rudgwickensis n. sp.
Blows 1996
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1 individual | |||||||||
| HORSM 1988.1546 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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| teeth | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Sussex |
| Coordinates: | 51.1° North, 0.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.3° North, 10.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 68 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green marl |
| Secondary lithology: | brown claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "uniformaly grey-green marl beds about 30 cm thick, resting on brown clay at the quarry floor level" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Bioerosion: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,peel or thin section,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1985 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 59350 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-03-27 10:59:13 | Last modified: | 2022-02-15 06:44:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-27 10:59:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13933. | ETE | W. T. Blows. 1996. A new species of Polacanthus (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Sussex, England. Geological Magazine 133(6):671-682 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 77222 | P. M. Barrett and S. C. R. Maidment. 2011. Armoured dinosaurs. In D. J. Batten (ed.), English Wealden Fossils. Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:391-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78161 | D. J. Batten and P. A. Austen. 2011. The Wealden of south-east England. In D. J. Batten (ed.), English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:15-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 43605 | D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2008. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Ornithischia. Journal of the Geological Society, London 165:613-623 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |