Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; carbonaceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. N. Leeds
Collection methods: quarrying,
• GPIT: Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Tübingen
Primary reference: G. von Arthaber. 1906. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation und der Anpassungserscheinungen des genus Metriorhynchus. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 19(4):287-320 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133067: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.09.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Belemnites hastatus" = Belemnopsis hastata
"Belemnites hastatus" = Belemnopsis hastata Blainville 1808 belemnite | |
"Aspidoceras perarmatum" = Euaspidoceras perarmatum
"Aspidoceras perarmatum" = Euaspidoceras perarmatum Sowerby 1822 ammonite | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Asteracanthus ornatissimus Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch | |
Reptilia | |
Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Seeley 1874 ichthyosaur | |
Steneosaurus dasycephalus Seeley 1869 marine crocodile | |
Metriorhynchus ? moreli, "Metriorhynchus jaekeli" = Thalattosuchus superciliosus
Metriorhynchus ? moreli Deslongchamps 1867 marine crocodile "perhaps in a large second copy [of M. moreli] in the Münich collection"
"Metriorhynchus jaekeli" = Thalattosuchus superciliosus de Blainville 1853 marine crocodile | |
"Muraenosaurus leedsi" = Muraenosaurus leedsii, "Cryptoclidus oxoniensis" = Plesiosaurus oxoniensis
"Muraenosaurus leedsi" = Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley 1874 plesiosaur
"Cryptoclidus oxoniensis" = Plesiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips 1871 plesiosaur | |
Peloneustes philarchus Seeley 1869 plesiosaur
"Pliosaurus ferox" = Liopleurodon ferox Sauvage 1873 plesiosaur
Pliosaurus grandis Owen 1840 plesiosaur | |
Actinopteri | |
Pachycormus macropomus Agassiz 1843 |