Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Oxford Clay Formation (Ancholme Group), Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140700: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.03.2013, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pliosaurus ferox" = Liopleurodon ferox2
"Pliosaurus ferox" = Liopleurodon ferox2 Sauvage 1873 plesiosaur A tooth (BMNH 39787) referred by Lydekker (1890, fig. 45) ;two large phalanges (BMNH R.400) were later referred by Delair (1960)
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"Muraenosaurus plicatus" = Muraenosaurus leedsii, "Cryptocleidus eurymerus" = Cryptoclidus eurymerus
"Muraenosaurus plicatus" = Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley 1874 plesiosaur Four cervical centra, BMNH 44187
"Cryptocleidus eurymerus" = Cryptoclidus eurymerus Phillips 1871 plesiosaur Dorsal vertebrae in the BMNH (no specific details given)
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Ophthalmosaurus monocharactus n. sp.1
Ophthalmosaurus monocharactus n. sp.1 Appleby 1956 ichthyosaur Precise locality unknown (Leicester and Peterborough Museum collections)
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