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] |