Woodstock, Stonesfield (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stonesfield Slates Member (Taynton Limestone Formation), Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, brown, sandy shale

• "slate-stone pit", with stratum described as arenaceous, soft, dusky brown

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Platt in 1755–1757; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. Platt. 1758. An Account of the fossile Thigh-bone of a large Animal, dug up at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 50(68):524-527 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59716: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea acuminata2 Sowerby 1816 oyster
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
? Megalosaurus sp.1 Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
 Saurischia -
cf. Cetiosaurus oxoniensis2 Phillips 1871 sauropod
vertebrae; hippopotamus or rhinoceros "or some such large animal"