Also known as Headington
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 8.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• "Pocock (1908) notes that these pits expose the contact between the Kimmeridge Clay Formation and the underlying Corallian beds, suggesting the pliosaurid material was found in the lower part of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation" (Knutsen 2012, p. 267) [i.e. Early Kimmeridgian]
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Viscount Cole
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119086: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 20.10.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plesiosaurus affinis n. sp.
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"Plesiosaurus brachyspondylus n. sp." = Pliosaurus brachyspondylus
"Plesiosaurus brachyspondylus n. sp." = Pliosaurus brachyspondylus Owen 1840 plesiosaur vertebrae (now lost), also mentioned by Conybeare (1822)
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Metriorhynchidae indet. Fitzinger 1843 marine crocodile |