Brook (Fox collection) [PROXY]: Barremian, United Kingdom
collected by W. Fox

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ornithodesmus latidens n. sp. Seeley 1901
Seeley 1901 2 specimens
recombined as Istiodactylus latidens
BMNH R176 (holotype), part of a poorly preserved skeleton. CAMMZ T706, partial skull (may be from same individual as the holotype)
Ornithodesmus cluniculus n. sp. Seeley 1887
1 individual
BMNH R187 (holotype), poorly preserved sacrum of six vertebrae
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Lydekker 1890 1 specimen
BMNH R1656, horn-like bone
Coelurosauria indet. (Huene 1914)
Naish et al. 2001 1 specimen
BMNH R186
aff. Ornithopsis sp. Seeley 1870
Lydekker 1887 2 specimens
BMNH R.151, R.146a
    = Titanosaurus informal sp. a Lydekker 1877
Lydekker 1888
    = ? Titanosaurus sp. Lydekker 1877
Woodward and Sherborn 1890
    = Titanosaurus valdensis n. sp. Huene 1929
Huene 1929
nomen dubium belonging to Titanosauriformes
Titanosaurus sp. Lydekker 1877
Blows 1998 1 specimen
NHMUK R5333 (two caudal vertebrae and the posterior condyle of a third caudal vertebra in articulation)
    = Lithostrotia indet. Wilson and Upchurch 2003
D'Emic 2012
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Isle of Wight
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 1.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 9.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:3 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wealden Formation:Wessex
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:W. Fox
Collection method comments: collected by Fox, sold to BMNH 1882
Metadata
Also known as:BMNH
Database number:48853
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-31 19:27:52 Last modified:2023-10-13 13:45:27
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-31 19:27:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24479.ETE H. G. Seeley. 1887. On a sacrum, apparently indicating a new type of bird, Ornithodesmus cluniculus, Seeley, from the Wealden of Brook. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:206-211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13932ETE W. T. Blows. 1998. A review of Lower and Middle Cretaceous dinosaurs of England. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:29-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43726 M. D. D'Emic. 2012. The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166:624-671 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
30318 R. W. Hooley. 1913. On the skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens; an ornithosaur from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield, Isle of Wight. Quaterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 69:372-422 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
67739 S. C. B. Howse and A. R. Milner. 1993. Ornithodesmus - a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, England. Palaeontology 36(2):425-437 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
30317 S. C. B. Howse, A. R. Milner, and D. M. Martill. 2001. Pterosaurs. In D. M. Martill, D. Naish (eds.), Dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight, The Palaeontological Association, London 324-335 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
59060 F. v. Huene. 1929. Los sauriquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo argentino. Anales del Museo de La Plata, serie 2 3:1-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14166ETE R. Lydekker. 1887. On certain dinosaurian vertebrae from the Cretaceous of India and the Isle of Wight. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:156-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14142ETE R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
14168ETE R. Lydekker. 1890. On a peculiar horn-like dinosaurian bone from the Wealden. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 46:185-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36798ETE R. Lydekker. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. I. — The dinosaurs of Patagonia. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 2:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46153 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
86089 D. Naish, S. Hutt, and D. M. Martill. 2001. Saurischian dinosaurs 2: theropods. In D. M. Martill & D. Naish (ed.), Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:242-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
86088 D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2001. Saurischian dinosaurs 1: sauropods. In D. M. Martill & D. Naish (ed.), Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:185-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82791 D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2001. Armoured dinosaurs: thyreophorans. In D. M. Martill & D. Naish (ed.), Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:147-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13712ETE J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30319 H. G. Seeley. 1901. Dragons of the air, an account of extinct flying reptiles 1-239 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]
34541 S. C. Sweetman and D. M. Martill. 2010. Pterosaurs of the Wessex Formation (Earl Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England: a review with new data. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):225-242 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
68171 E. Van Den Broeck. 1900. Les dépôts à Iguanodons de Bernissart et leur transfert dans l’étage Purbeckien ou Aquilonien du Jurassique supérieur. Exposé comprenant une revue de la faune des vertébrés du Purbeckien et du Wealdien dans le sud-est de l’Angleterre [The Iguanodon deposits of Bernissart and their transfer to the Purbeckian or Aquilonian stage of the Upper Jurassic. Presentation including a review of the vertebrate fauna of the Purbeckian and Wealden of southeast England ]. Mémoires de la Société Belge de Géologie de Paléontologie et d’Hydrologie 14:39-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]