near Hitchin: Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian, United Kingdom
collected 1890

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Iguanodon hillii n. sp. Newton 1892
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauroidea
Ornithocheirus sp. Seeley 1869
Benton and Spencer 1995
    = ? Ornithocheiridae indet. Seeley 1870
Barrett et al. 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Hertfordshire
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 0.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.8° North, 1.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:74 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian Ammonoid zone: subglobosus
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chalk Formation:Zig Zag Chalk Member:Totternhoe Stone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Totternhoe Stone = Zig Zag Chalk Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1890s
Metadata
Database number:35298
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-11-25 14:45:54 Last modified:2017-07-14 13:57:17
Access level:the public Released:2003-11-25 14:45:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9523. E. T. Newton. 1892. Note on an iguanodont tooth from the lower Chalk ("Totternhoe Stone"), near Hitchin. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 3 9:49-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

31161 P. M. Barrett, R. J. Butler, N. P. Edwards and A. R. Milner. 2008. Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas. Zitteliana B 28:61-107 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
54995 P. M. Barrett, D. C. Evans, and J. J. Head. 2014. A re-evaluation of purported hadrosaurid dinosaur specimens from the "middle" Cretaceous of England. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 96-107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
17047ETE W. Brinkmann. 1988. Zur Fundgeschichte und Systematik der Ornithopoden (Ornithischia, Reptilia) aus der Ober-Kreide von Europa [The history of discovery and systematics of the ornithopods (Ornithischia, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe]. Documenta Naturae 45:1-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19147ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosaurids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An overview. Natura Nascosta 32:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52459 K. P. Oakley. 1947. Fossil and sub-fossil vertebrates. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society 22(5):239-246 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]
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]