Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 6.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: polymorphus ammonoid zone, Stonebarrow Marls Member (Charmouth Mudstone Formation), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• From bed 110, polymorphus subzone of the jamesoni Zone, Stonebarrow Marl Member of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marl and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. R. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2015. A new species of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of west Dorset, England, U.K. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e903260:1-14 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176440: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 12.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ichthyosaurus anningae n. sp.
Ichthyosaurus anningae n. sp. Lomax and Massare 2015 ichthyosaur Holotype: DONMG:1983.98, an incomplete skeleton comprising the skull, pectoral girdle, two humeri, anterior trunk, and scattered portions of the posterior skeleton, including two femora and an ilium. It is larger than any of the referred specimens and has more precisely known stratigraphic information. Referred specimens (NHMUK OR 35566, NHMUK OR 120) from Lyme Regis but precise locality unknown
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Bairstowius junceus Phillips 1867 belemnite | |