Swanage (general): Berriasian, United Kingdom
collected by W. Hulke, Davies, C. Pearce

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Cimoliosaurus sp. (Leidy 1851)
Lydekker 1889 1 specimen
BMNH 21974, a small left propodial bone from the Middle Purbeck Beds of Swanage, purchased in 1848, but without specific collections data, said to resemble Cimoliosaurus haasti (now Mauisaurus haasti)
    = Plesiosauroidea indet. Welles 1943
Delair 1960
    = Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Kear et al. 2009
Reptilia
Pterodactyloidea indet. Plieninger 1901
Howse and Milner 1995 2 elements
BMNH R.5798, tibia. BMNH 2462, radius.
Ornithocheirus sp. Seeley 1869
Howse and Milner 1995 1 specimen
BMNH R.11958, partial mandible. "Ornithocheirus species A"
    = Ornithocheiridae indet. Seeley 1870
Unwin et al. 2000
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842
1 specimen
NHMUK (BMNH) 41098 - skull
Reptilia - Pleurosternidae
Pleurosternum sp. (Owen 1853)
Delair 1958 1 specimen
original and current combination Pleurosternon
DORCM G.23
Thalassemys ruetimeyeri n. sp. Lydekker 1889
Lydekker 1889 1 specimen
BMNH 40676, immature carapace
    = Dorsetochelys typocardium Seeley 1869
Pérez-García 2014
recombined as Ballerstedtia typocardia
NHMUK 40676, a carapace lacking most peripheral plates
Reptilia - Plesiochelyidae
Plesiochelys sp. Rütimeyer 1873
Lydekker 1889 3 specimens
BMNH 21351x (left hyoplastral), 23407x (right hyoplastral), R1615 (left hypo- and xiphiplastral)
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelone obovata n. sp. Owen 1842
Owen 1842 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Testudines
Reptilia
Parviraptor estesi Evans 1994
Evans 1994 1 specimen
BMNH R8511 (partial skull, ribs, vertebrae)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 7.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Berriasian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Berriasian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Purbeck
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:W. Hulke, Davies, C. Pearce
Collection method comments: Goniopholis was acquired from a dealer in Swanage; brought to Hulke by Mr. Davies, his assistant
Metadata
Database number:92916
Authorizer:R. Butler, M. Carrano, P. Mannion, R. Benson Enterer:R. Butler, R. Benson, J. Tennant, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-12-08 06:25:15 Last modified:2017-11-07 10:24:52
Access level:the public Released:2009-12-08 06:25:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

39180. J. W. Hulke. 1878. Note on two skulls from the Wealden and Purbeck Formations indicating a new subgroup of Crocodilia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 34:377-382 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

47078 J. B. Delair. 1958. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part one. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 79:47-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31216ETE J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]
37904 S. E. Evans. 1994. A new anguimorph lizard from the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of England. Palaeontology 37(1):33-49 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
31375 S. C. B. Howse and A. R. Milner. 1995. The pterodactyloids from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset. Bulletin of the Natural History Musuem, London (Geology) 51(1):73-88 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
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]
33960 R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson]
41531 R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia 1-239 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]
14071ETE R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50585 A. Pérez-García. 2014. Revision of the poorly known Dorsetochelys typocardium, a relatively abundant pleurosternid turtle (Paracryptodira) in the Early Cretaceous of Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:152-162 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
31079 D. M. Unwin, J. Lü, and N. N. Bakhurina. 2000. On the systematic and stratigraphic significance of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Jehol Group) of Liaoning, China. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe 3:181-206 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]