Summertown Pit, Wolvercote (OUM) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Eustreptospondylus type

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peltoceras athleta ammonoid zone, Stewartby Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• P. athleta Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by W. Parker in 1870

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. W. Hulke. 1884. The anniversary address of the President. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 40:37-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52552: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis n. gen. n. sp. Walker 1964 tetanuran theropod