Leigh Delamere (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Forest Marble Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithology not reported

• "an offshore, high-energy environment…reconstructed as a tidal delta."

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by S. E. Evans

Primary reference: S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 303-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 166423: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Synapsida -
Therapsida indet.
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae indet., Stereognathus sp.
Tritylodontidae indet. Cope 1884 mammaliamorph
Stereognathus sp. Charlesworth 1854 mammaliamorph
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata -
Squamata indet., Scincomorpha indet.
Squamata indet. squamates
 Eosuchia -
Lepidosauromorpha indet., Marmoretta sp.
Marmoretta sp. Evans 1991 crown diapsid
 Choristodera -
Choristodera indet.
Choristodera indet. choristodere
 Choristodera - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys sp.
Cteniogenys sp. Gilmore 1928 choristodere
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet.
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
Amphibia
 Caudata -
Caudata "indet. A", Caudata indet.
Caudata indet. salamander