Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cotswold Slate Formation, Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
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 57140: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cycadopsida | |
Cycadales indet. Dumortier 1829 cycads | |
Actinopteri | |
Pycnodontidae indet. Agassiz 1833 | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar | |
Reptilia | |
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod | |
Rhamphocephalus sp. Seeley 1880 pterosaur | |
Steneosaurus sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
Teleosaurus sp. Geoffroy 1825 marine crocodile | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Insecta | |
Neuroptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 lacewing
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle |