Swanage quarry (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Goniopholis crassidens type

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Probably the Intermarine Member (Salisbury 2002)

•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: marginal marine; yellow limestone

• "fawn-coloured limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by workmen & Trotter in 1837; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123314: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis crassidens n. gen. n. sp.
Goniopholis crassidens n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
BMNH 3798 - holotype (partial, disarticulated skeleton of a ca. 3 m long crocodilian)