Bottisham, Cambridgeshire: Early/Lower Cenomanian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Acanthopholis platypus n. sp.
Seeley 1869
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Sauropoda | ||||||||||
| metatarsus probably a sauropod; SMC B55449-55461 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Cambridgeshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.2° North, 0.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 1.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 15 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Selborne | Formation: | Upper Greensand |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60193 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-05 13:44:04 | Last modified: | 2022-09-30 14:51:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-05 13:44:04 |
| 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:
| 62949 | E. Hennig. 1915. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 9: Stegosauria 1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 31495 | X. Pereda Suberbiola and P. M. Barrett. 1999. A systematic review of ankylosaurian dinosaur remains from the Albian-Cenomanian of England. In D. M. Unwin (ed.), Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:177-208 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 17353 | ETE | H. G. Seeley. 1871. On Acanthopholis platypus (Seeley), a pachypod from the Cambridge Upper Greensand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4 5:305-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |