Valtos, Isle of Skye: Late/Upper Bajocian - Bathonian, United Kingdom
collected 2013
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ichthyosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NMS G. 2014.21.2: single incomplete vertebral centrum | ||||||||||
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Theriosuchus sp.
Owen 1878
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Young et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| NMS G. 2014.52.1 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Trotternish Peninsula |
| Coordinates: | 57.6° North, 6.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.5° North, 4.6° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Bajocian - Bathonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 168.60000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Great Estuarine | Formation: | Valtos Sandstone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2013 |
| Collection method comments: found in "a loose block on the foreshore" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Carraig Mhor | ||
| Database number: | 165071 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-01-12 03:01:34 | Last modified: | 2017-06-30 07:28:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-12 03:01:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54005. | S. L. Brusatte, M. T. Young, T. J. Challands, N. D. L. Clark, V. Fischer, N. C. Fraser, J. J. Liston, C. C. J. MacFayden, D. A. Ross, S. Walsh, and M. Wilkinson. 2015. Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |
Secondary references:
| 62608 | M. T. Young, J. P. Tennant, S. L. Brusatte, T. J. Challands, N. C. Fraser, N. D. L. Clark, and D. A. Ross. 2016. The first definitive Middle Jurassic atoposaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia), and a discussion on the genus Theriosuchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(2):443-462 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |