Northern end of Durlston Bay (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Goniopholis kiplingi type locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stair Hole Member (Durlston Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Bed 129b (Clements, 1993), Intermarine beds sensu Wimbledon in Benton & Spencer(1995; = Intermarine Member sensu Clements, 1993), Stair Hole Member sensu Westhead & Mather (1996), Purbeck Limestone Group; Berriasian, Lower Cretaceous (Salisbury et al., 1999; Milner & Batten, 2002).

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•Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, gray, white, sandy limestone and calcareous mudstone

• A weak aqueous flux was present during the depositional process. A strong current is unlikely, as it would have turned over the skull prior to definitive burial
• Alternating layers of sandy limestone and calcareous mudstone. The matrix shows centimetric to millimetric layers of fine sediment, mostly greyish to whitish in colour

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. d. Andrade, R. Edmonds, M. J. Benton and R. Schouten. 2011. A new Berriasian species of Goniopholis (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S66-S108 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123271: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Reptilia
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis kiplingi n. sp.
Goniopholis kiplingi n. sp. Andrade et al. 2011 crocodilian
DORCM 12154 - type (well-preserved skull, dorsoventrally flattened, lacking mandibles and most teeth)
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam