Chawley brick pit, Cumnor (d): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom
collected by J. Prestwich 1879-1880

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825
1 individual
OUM J.3303
    = Iguanodon prestwichii n. sp. Hulke 1880
Hulke 1880
recombined as Cumnoria prestwichii
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula ovalis Sowerby 1813
Prestwich 1880
Cephalopoda
Trigonellites latus Parkinson 1811
Prestwich 1880
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
Prestwich 1880
"small species"
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea virgula
Prestwich 1880
"occurs here in profusion"
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
Prestwich 1880
"small species"
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789
Prestwich 1880
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Oxfordshire
Coordinates: 51.7° North, 1.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 8.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian Zone: Auloacostephanus pseudomutabilis
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kimmeridge Clay Member:Lower
Local section:Cumnor Hurst Local bed:4.15 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: described as "upper Lower Kimmeridgian" by Galton & Powell; eudoxus Zone; bed d = "Iguanodon-bed", thickness to middle of bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology:white,yellow sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a thin seam, two or three inches thick, of yellow sandy clay...The thin sandy seam, being very conspicuous in the dark clay..."
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. Prestwich Collection dates:1879-1880
Metadata
Also known as:Iguanodon prestwichii type, Cumnor Hurst
Database number:26790
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-11-01 07:22:20 Last modified:2019-07-16 14:18:29
Access level:the public Released:2002-11-01 07:22:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23792.ETE J. Prestwich. 1879. On the discovery of a species of Iguanodon in the Kimmeridge Clay near Oxford; and a notice of a very fossiliferous band of the Shotover Sands. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 2 6(5):193-195 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

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]
12666ETE P. M. Galton. 1980. European Jurassic ornithopod dinosaurs of the families Hypsilophodontidae and Camptosauridae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 160(1):73-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7420 P. M. Galton and H. P. Powell. 1980. The ornithischian dinosaur Camptosaurus prestwichii from the Upper Jurassic of England. Palaeontology 23(2):411-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69432 W. J. Harrison. 1882. Geology of the Counties of England and of North and South Wales xxviii-346 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7419 J. W. Hulke. 1880. Iguanodon prestwichii, a new species from the Kimmeridge Clay, distinguished from I. mantelli of the Wealden Formation in the S.E. of England and Isle of Wight by differences in the shape of the vertebral centra, by fewer than five sacral vertebrae, by the simpler character of its tooth-serrature, etc., founded on numerous fossil remains lately discovered at Cumnor, near Oxford. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 36(143):433-456 [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]
14155ETE R. Lydekker. 1889. On the remains and affinities of five genera of Mesozoic reptiles. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 45:41-59 [M. Carrano/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]
23793ETE J. Prestwich. 1880. Note on the occurrence of a new species of Iguanodon in a brick-pit of the Kimmeridge Clay at Cumnor Hurst, three miles W.S.W. of Oxford. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 36:430-432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46682 H.-E. Sauvage. 1895. Les dinosauriens du terrain jurassique supérieur du Boulonnais [The dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic terrain of the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 22:465-470 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17356ETE H. G. Seeley. 1888. On Cumnoria, an iguanodont genus founded upon the Iguanodon prestwichi, Hulke. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 57:698 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [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]