Steyning chalk-pit (Middle Chalk): Turonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Plesiosaurus constrictus n. sp.
Owen 1850
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen vanum belonging to Elasmosauridae | ||||||||||
| partial anterior cervical vertebra first reported by Owen (1850, p. 398) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Sussex |
| Coordinates: | 50.9° North, 0.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 1.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chalk | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From the Middle Chalk, according to Milner (1987) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | chalk |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 140705 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-15 06:03:28 | Last modified: | 2021-07-30 15:14:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-15 06:03:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64387. | R. Owen. 1850. Descriptions of the fossils of the Chalk Formation. Description of the fossil reptiles of the Chalk Formation. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex 378-404 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |
| 62763 | F. Dixon. 1850. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex xvi-422 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] |