"Mutton Hole", Suttle's Quarry: Late/Upper Berriasian, United Kingdom
collected by E. Suttle, P. Brown, W. Oppé, H. White, A. Charig, B. Newman, C. Walker, J. Delair 1961–1963
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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1 specimen | |||||||||
trackway | ||||||||||
= Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Charig and Newman 1962 | |||||||||
theropod or ornithopod | ||||||||||
= ? Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Ensom et al. 1994 | |||||||||
= Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Wright 1999 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Megalosauridae indet.
(Fitzinger 1843)
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Delair 1966 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
trackways | ||||||||||
= Megalosaurus sp.
Parkinson 1822
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Walkden and Oppé 1969 | |||||||||
= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Sarjeant et al. 1998 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Pteraichnidae
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Purbeckopus sp.
Delair 1963
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Delair and Lander 1973 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 7.9° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Berriasian | ||
Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 140.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Purbeck | Formation: | Durlston | Member: | Stair Hole |
Local section: | Durlston Bay | Local bed: | DB125 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Equivalent to DB 125; originally described as the Pink Bed (lower part of Roach). Also a surface on the "sugar" bed.
Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,red "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "preserved in the 'pink bed' of the 'roach stone'" with underprints in lower layers | |
Environment: | lagoonal |
Geology comments: "intertidal to supratidal flats, on the shores of a freshwater to brackish lagoon" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
Associated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
Collectors: | E. Suttle, P. Brown, W. Oppé, H. White, A. Charig, B. Newman, C. Walker, J. Delair | Collection dates: | 1961–1963 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Herston Cross | ||
Database number: | 55407 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-10-19 12:18:06 | Last modified: | 2022-10-13 14:34:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-19 12:18:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
27046. | ETE | Anonymous. 1962. The slow march of a Purbeck Iguanodon. New Scientist 13(271):186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
63689 | Anonymous. 1963. Dinosaur tracks on lawn of London museum. Science News Letter 84(7):103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
27048 | ETE | A. J. Charig and B. H. Newman. 1962. Footprints in the Purbeck. New Scientist 14(285):234-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
31251 | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1963. Notes on Purbeck fossil footprints, with descriptions of two hitherto unknown forms from Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 84:92-100 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
27069 | ETE | J. B. Delair. 1966. New records of dinosaurs and other fossil reptiles from Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 87:57-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
54106 | J. B. Delair and A. B. Lander. 1973. A short history of the discovery of reptilian footprints in the Purbeck Beds of Dorset, with notes on their stratigraphical distribution. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 94:17-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
32041 | ETE | P. C. Ensom. 1995. Dinosaur footprint records for the Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, since 1981. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 116:151-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
31269 | ETE | P. C. Ensom, S. E. Evans, J. E. Francis, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and A. R. Milner. 1994. The fauna and flora of the Sunnydown Farm footprint site and associated sites: Purbeck Limestone Formation, Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 115:181-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
54449 | E. F. Oppé. 1965. Isle of Purbeck: Sunny Spaces and Dinosaur Traces. 1-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
62740 | J. H. Ostrom. 1972. Were some dinosaurs gregarious?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 11:287-301 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
70030 | J. S. Peel. 2017. Anatase and Hadimopanella selection by Salterella from the Kap Troedsson formation (Cambrian Series 2) of North Greenland. GFf 139:70-74 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
82858 | W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
70300 | W. A. S. Sarjeant, J. B. Delair, and M. G. Lockley. 1998. The footprints of Iguanodon: a history and taxonomic study. Ichnos 6(3):183-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
27047 | ETE | J. Swaine. 1962. Iguanodon footprints. New Scientist 13(276):520 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
81063 | G. M. Walkden and E. F. Oppé. 1969. In the footsteps of dinosaurs. The Amateur Geologist 111(2):19-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
14904 | ETE | J. L. Wright. 1999. Ichnological evidence for the use of the forelimb in iguanodontid locomotion. In D. M. Unwin (ed.), Special Papers in Palaeontology. Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates 60:209-219 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |