Chawley brick pit, Cumnor (e) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aulacostephanus eudoxus ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• described as "upper Lower Kimmeridgian" by Galton & Powell; eudoxus Zone; bed e, thickness to middle of bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Prestwich in 1879-1880

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1880. Note on the occurrence of a new species of Iguanodon in a brick-pit of the Kimmeridge Clay at Cumnor Hurst, three miles W.S.W. of Oxford. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 36:430-432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70996: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2007, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Dakosaurus sp. Quenstedt 1856 marine crocodile
tooth
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus ? rossicus Novozhilov 1948 plesiosaur
OUMNH J.10454, a giant mandible
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus sp. Koenig 1818 ichthyosaur
vertebrae, ribs
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae