Shotover, Oxford (OUM) (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1800-1900; reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74931: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2007, edited by Roger Benson and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus indet.3, Pliosaurus brachydeirus2
Pliosaurus indet.3 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
A small cervical vertebra in the Oxford Museum (p. 64)
Pliosaurus brachydeirus2 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
A tooth six and a half inches in length (p. 284); plus an ischium and various other bones (Phillips 1871, p. 348-354)
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus grandis, Plesiosaurus nitidus n. sp.4
Plesiosaurus grandis Owen 1840 plesiosaur
Plesiosaurus nitidus n. sp.4 Phillips 1871 plesiosaur
"a few vertebrae"
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Teleosaurus asthenodeirus n. sp.3
Teleosaurus asthenodeirus n. sp.3 Owen 1842 marine crocodile
2 cervicals, dermal bone
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
OUM J.47134
1Carrano et al. 2012; 2Owen 1841; 3Owen 1842; 4Phillips 1871