Watton Cliff, Dorset [Forest Marble Fm]: Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Teleosauridae
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Machimosaurus bathonicus
Sauvage 1874
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Sauvage and Lienard 1879 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Steneosaurus | ||||||||||
Precise locality unknown | ||||||||||
Machimosaurus rigauxi
Sauvage 1874
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Sauvage and Lienard 1879 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Steneosaurus | ||||||||||
Precise locality unknown | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Heterodontiformes
- Heterodontidae
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? Paracestracion sp.
Koken in Zittel 1911
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Proheterodontus sylvestris n. sp.
Underwood and Ward 2004
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
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Carcharhiniformes indet.
Compagno 1973
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Palaeoscyllium tenuidens
Underwood and Ward 2004
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Proscylliidae
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Eypea leesi n. sp.
Underwood and Ward 2004
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Chondrichthyes
- Protospinacidae
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Breviacanthus brevis
(Philips 1871)
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Chondrichthyes
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Galea indet.
Shirai 1996
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Spathobatis delsatei
Underwood and Ward 2004
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Holothuroidea
- Etheridgellidae
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Frizzellus irregularis
Hampton 1958
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
Coordinates: | 51.9° North, 0.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.6° North, 10.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Bathonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Forest Marble | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Forest Marble Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not stated. AGE: Bathonian; presumably on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From several beds within the Forest Marble Fm; the Boueti Bed and a unit of bioclastic limestone higher in the succession. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Rubbly brachiopod limestone and bioclastic limestone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, as stated in text. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors, Underwood and Ward. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London. | |
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for chondrichthyans. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. |
Metadata
Database number: | 91449 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy, P. Mannion, L. Villier | Enterer: | A. Hendy, J. Tennant, L. Villier |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-09-27 08:35:51 | Last modified: | 2022-03-21 08:57:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-09-27 08:35:51 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
30802. | C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
31904 | J. S. Hampton. 1958. Frizzellus irregularis, a new holothurian sclerite from the Upper Bathonian of the Dorset coast, England. Micropaleontology 4(3):309-316 [L. Villier/L. Villier] | |
50458 | H. E. Sauvage and F. Lienard. 1879. Memoire sur le genre Machimosaurus. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 3(1):1-32 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |