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
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Cimoliosaurus sp.
(Leidy 1851)
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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
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Delair 1960 | |||||||||
= Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Kear et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Pterodactyloidea indet.
Plieninger 1901
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Howse and Milner 1995 | 2 elements | ||||||||
BMNH R.5798, tibia. BMNH 2462, radius. | ||||||||||
Ornithocheirus sp.
Seeley 1869
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Howse and Milner 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH R.11958, partial mandible. "Ornithocheirus species A" | ||||||||||
= Ornithocheiridae indet.
Seeley 1870
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Unwin et al. 2000 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
NHMUK (BMNH) 41098 - skull | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pleurosternidae
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Pleurosternum sp.
(Owen 1853)
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Delair 1958 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
original and current combination Pleurosternon | ||||||||||
DORCM G.23 | ||||||||||
Thalassemys ruetimeyeri n. sp.
Lydekker 1889
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Lydekker 1889 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH 40676, immature carapace | ||||||||||
= Dorsetochelys typocardium
Seeley 1869
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Pérez-García 2014 | |||||||||
recombined as Ballerstedtia typocardia | ||||||||||
NHMUK 40676, a carapace lacking most peripheral plates | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiochelyidae
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Plesiochelys sp.
Rütimeyer 1873
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Lydekker 1889 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 21351x (left hyoplastral), 23407x (right hyoplastral), R1615 (left hypo- and xiphiplastral) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelone obovata n. sp.
Owen 1842
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Owen 1842 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Testudines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Parviraptor estesi
Evans 1994
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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] | |
31216 | ETE | 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] | |
14071 | ETE | 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] |