Tarlton Clay Pit (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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: lagoonal; lithology not reported

• inshore brackish or freshwater lagoon

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• S.E. Evans, personal observations, material collected by Martin Ware and Simon Timberlake.

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57139: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.12.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata -
Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777 salamander
Caudata "indet. A" Scopoli 1777 salamander
Marmorerpeton sp. Evans et al. 1988 salamander
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae indet. Cope 1884 mammaliamorph
Stereognathus sp. Charlesworth 1854 mammaliamorph
 Morganucodonta - Megazostrodontidae
? Wareolestes sp. Freeman 1979 mammaliaform
 Morganucodonta - Morganucodontidae
? Morganucodontidae indet. Kuehne 1958 mammaliaform
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
 Triconodonta -
Triconodonta indet. Osborn 1888 triconodont
Osteichthyes
 Cynodontia -
Docodonta indet. Kretzoi 1946 dodocont
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata -
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet. ornithischian
 Ornithischia - Fabrosauridae
? Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972 ornithischian
 Eosuchia -
Lepidosauromorpha indet. Benton 1983 crown diapsid
Lepidosauromorpha "indet. A" Benton 1983 crown diapsid
 Choristodera -
Choristodera indet. choristodere
 Choristodera - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys sp. Gilmore 1928 choristodere