Weymouth Kimmeridge Clay Formation (non-specific locality data): Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian, United Kingdom
collected by J. F. Blake et al.

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus brachydirus (Owen 1841)
Lydekker 1889 1 specimen
recombined as Pliosaurus brachydeirus
BMNH 41776a (crushed, partial cervical centrum)
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Muraenosaurus truncatus (Owen 1854)
Delair 1960
nomen dubium belonging to Plesiosauria
Many cervical and dorsal vertebrae found at or near Weymouth
Plesiosauroidea indet. Welles 1943
Delair 1960 6 specimens
DORCM G.103a-c, 104a-c, six teeth; and a partial vertebra (DORCM G.135)
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Kimmerosaurus langhami Brown 1981
Brown et al. 1986 1 specimen
R1798, partial skull and mandible; no detailed data is avilable, but the specimen almost certainly came from a cliff exposure between Sandsfoot Castle and the old Portland Ferry Bridge described by Damon (1884) (Brown et al. 1986:226))
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Muraenosaurus brevior n. sp. Lydekker 1889
Delair 1960 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Cimoliasaurus
BMNH 41955, first reported by Lydekker (1889, p. 243)
Reptilia
Pterodactylus sp. Cuvier 1809
2 specimens
Carpals
    = Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Benton and Spencer 1995
Pterodactylus suprajurensis Sauvage 1873
Lydekker 1891 1 specimen
BMNH 41179, quadrate
    = Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Benton and Spencer 1995
Pterodactylus pleydellii n. sp. Owen 1874
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Pterosauria
BMNH 42378 (holotype), distal humerus and wing phalanx
Pterodactylus manselii n. sp. Owen 1874
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Pterosauria
BMNH 41970 (holotype), proximal humerus and wing phalanx
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchidae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Grange and Benton 1996
BMNH 43032, 44179, 46058a, b, c, 49511
Reptilia
Tropidemys sp. Rütimeyer 1873
Pérez-García 2015 1 specimen
NHMUK 44178b, a neural plate
Tropidemys langi (Rütimeyer 1873)
Delair 1958
original and current combination Tropidemys langii
"mostly detached shell bones"
Pelobatochelys blakei n. gen., n. sp. (Seeley 1875)
Delair 1958 5 specimens
original and current combination Pelobatochelys blakii
BMNH R.2, R.2a, 44177, 44177b, 41235
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.3° North, 7.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian Ammonoid zone: Pictonia baylei-Virgatopavlovia fittoni
Age range of interval:157.30000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Kimmeridge Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Kimmeridge Clay Formation [Pictonia baylei-Virgatopavlovia fittoni]
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:J. F. Blake et al.
Metadata
Database number:92096
Authorizer:R. Butler, M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:R. Butler, J. Tennant, M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-29 09:20:59 Last modified:2015-03-30 08:18:13
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-29 09:20:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30979. R. Owen. 1874. The fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part 1. Pterosauria. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 27(126):1-14 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

15587ETE M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant]
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]
47078 J. B. Delair. 1958. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part one. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 79:47-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31216ETE J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]
46685 D. R. Grange and M. J. Benton. 1996. Kimmeridgian metriorhynchid crocodiles from England. Palaeontology 39(2):497-514 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
33960 R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson]
14165ETE R. Lydekker. 1891. On certain ornithosaurian and dinosaurian remains. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 47:41-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54780 A. Pérez-García. 2015. Revision of the British record of Tropidemys (Testudines, Plesiochelyidae) and recognition of its presence in the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):11-20 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]