Near Barrow-On-Soar, Leicestershire: Hettangian - Pliensbachian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Leptopterygius tenuirostris (Conybeare 1822)
2 individuals
original and current combination Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris
LEICS OS.90.1953; BMNH 36182
Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae
Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis Appleby 1979
Appleby 1979 1 specimen
LM 454'1951/164, Faulkes Collection
Ichthyosaurus comminis
McGowan 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Leicestershire
Coordinates: 52.8° North, 1.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.7° North, 4.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Key time interval:Hettangian - Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:201.30000 - 182.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:98151
Authorizer:M. Carrano, A. Dunhill Enterer:H. Street, B. Allen
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-09-21 13:15:30 Last modified:2013-05-06 09:27:17
Access level:the public Released:2010-09-21 13:15:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33929. C. McGowan. 1989. Leptopterygius tenuirostris and other long-snouted ichthyosaurs from the English Lower Lias. Palaeontology 32(3):409-427 [M. Carrano/H. Street]

Secondary references:

35316 R. M. Appleby. 1979. The affinities of Liassic and later ichthyosaurs. Palaeontology 22(4):921-946 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
33931 C. McGowan. 1974. A revision of the latipinnate ichthyosaurs of the Lower Jurassic of England (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria). Life Sciences Contribution Royal Ontario Museum 100:1-30 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]
46676 P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]