Great Gransden brick pit: Late/Upper Oxfordian, United Kingdom
collected by L. Ewbank 1869

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus pachydeirus n. sp. Seeley 1869
Seeley 1869 1 specimen
recombined as Liopleurodon pachydeirus
CAMSM J.46912 (atlas-axis plus 15 cervical vertebrae)
Pliosaurus sp. (Owen 1841)
Galton 1983 1 individual
17 assoc. vertebrate
Reptilia
Cryptosaurus eumerus n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1875
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Ankylosauria
SMC J.46882
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.2° North, 0.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° North, 9.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:73 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian Ammonoid zone: Decipia decipiens
Age range of interval:161.20000 - 155.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ampthill Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: also referred to Oxford Clay; but probably from the ?Decipia decipiens Zone of the Ampthill Clay, middle Upper Oxfordian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:none
Encrustation:none
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:L. Ewbank Collection dates:1869
Collection method comments: Collected by L. Ewbank from a brick pit, now covered
Metadata
Also known as:Cryptosaurus/Cryptodraco type
Database number:36582
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-05 11:37:18 Last modified:2019-05-02 13:08:09
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-05 11:37:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9803. H. G. Seeley. 1875. On the femur of Cryptosaurus eumerus, Seeley, a dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of Great Gransden. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 319:149-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

18004ETE T. L. Ford. 2000. A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor. In S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:157-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
12684ETE P. M. Galton. 1980. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of England. Géobios 13(6):825-837 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
25616ETE P. M. Galton. 1983. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Europe. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 182(1-3):1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
34907ETE R. Lydekker. 1904. Vertebrate palaeontology of Cambridgeshire. In J. E. Marr, A. E. Shipley (eds.), Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 51-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14480ETE D. M. Martill. 1988. A review of the terrestrial vertebrate of fossils of the Oxford Clay (Callovian-Oxfordian) of England. Mercian Geologist 11(3):171-190 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14179ETE 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]
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]