Isle of Portland, Purbeck (general): Early/Lower Berriasian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Cimoliasaurus portlandicus
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Two cervical vertebrae BMNH 1607 (reported erroneously as 41235, 45904) | ||||||||||
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= Cryptocleidoidea indet.
Williston 1925
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Kear et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| replaced by Cryptoclidia | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.4° North, 7.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Berriasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 142.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Portland Island | ||
| Database number: | 139598 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-02-14 20:29:50 | Last modified: | 2018-01-11 16:05:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-14 20:29:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14160. | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1890. Contributions to our knowledge of the dinosaurs of the Wealden and the sauropterygians of the Purbeck and Oxford Clay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 46:36-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 44892 | B. P. Kear, A. R. Milner, and P. M. Barrett. 2009. Plesiosaur remains from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 120:121-125 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |