near Hitchin: Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian, United Kingdom
collected 1890
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Iguanodon hillii n. sp.
Newton 1892
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1 specimen | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauroidea | |||||||
Ornithocheirus sp.
Seeley 1869
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Benton and Spencer 1995 | ||||||
= ? Ornithocheiridae indet.
Seeley 1870
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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] | |
15587 | ETE | M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant] |
17047 | ETE | 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] |
19147 | ETE | 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] |