Swyre, Dorset (UCL) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 8.1° 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: crevasse splay; limestone

• Paleoenvironment is similar to that at Watton
• "cross-bedded calcirudite sequences with fine seams (1-2 cm) of grits and clay grits"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1976

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. E. Evans. 1992. Small reptiles and amphibians from the Forest Marble (Middle Jurassic) of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 113:201-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57125: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 02.12.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Discoglossidae indet. Günther 1859 painted frog
 Caudata -
Caudata "indet. A" salamander
"Kirtlington Salamander A"
Marmorerpeton sp. Evans et al. 1988 salamander
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet. ornithischian
 Ornithischia - Fabrosauridae
? Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972 ornithischian
 Theropoda -
 Pterosauria -
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
"Goniopholidae indet." = Goniopholididae
"Goniopholidae indet." = Goniopholididae Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Choristodera -
Choristodera indet. choristodere
 Choristodera - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys sp. Gilmore 1928 choristodere
 Eosuchia -
Lepidosauromorpha "indet. A" crown diapsid
"Kirtlington Reptile A"
 Lepidosauria -
 Testudines -
Cryptodira indet., "Chelonia indet." = Testudines
Cryptodira indet. Cope 1868 turtle
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae indet. Cope 1884 mammaliamorph
Stereognathus sp. Charlesworth 1854 mammaliamorph
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal