Lyme Regis (Higgins/Anning collection): Early/Lower Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by E. Higgins, M. Anning
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus delabecheii n. sp.
Charlesworth 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| corrected as Hybodus delabechei | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosaurus macrocephalus n. sp.
Owen 1840
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Owen 1840 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ichthyosauridae
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Ichthyosaurus breviceps
Owen 1881
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Massare and Lomax 2013 | |||||||||
| CAMSMX.50187 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 3.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Sinemurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Sinemurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Lower Lias" is only stratigraphic info given, but most fish come from the Bucklandi and Semicostatum zones of the Early Sinemurian, specially the "Fish Bed" and "Fish Bed shales" - both in the Semicostatum zone, but also from the "Saurian shales" and other lower beds in the Bucklandi zone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | E. Higgins, M. Anning |
| Collection method comments: Repository: not stated (possibly at Oxford University Museum). Joint collection of Mr. Edmund Higgins of Cheltenham and Miss Anning. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 139854 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham, P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Clapham, M. Carrano, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-02-19 04:34:44 | Last modified: | 2014-07-16 18:03:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-19 04:34:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45025. | E. Charlesworth. 1839. On the fossil remains of a species of Hybodus from Lyme Regis. Magazine of Natural History, New Series 3:242-248 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 46324 | J. A. Massare and D. R. Lomax. 2013. An Ichthyosaurus breviceps collected by Mary Anning: new information on the species. Geological magazine 1-8 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant] | |
| 34651 | 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] |