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
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Pliosaurus pachydeirus n. sp.
Seeley 1869
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Seeley 1869 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Liopleurodon pachydeirus | ||||||||||
CAMSM J.46912 (atlas-axis plus 15 cervical vertebrae) | ||||||||||
Pliosaurus sp.
(Owen 1841)
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Galton 1983 | 1 individual | ||||||||
17 assoc. vertebrate | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Cryptosaurus eumerus n. gen., n. sp.
Seeley 1875
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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:
18004 | ETE | 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] |
12666 | ETE | 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] |
12684 | ETE | 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] |
25616 | ETE | 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] |
14155 | ETE | 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] |
34907 | ETE | 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] |
14480 | ETE | 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] |
14179 | ETE | 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] |
30971 | ETE | 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] |