Scelidosaurus juvenile, Charmouth beach (BMNH): Late/Upper Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by G. F. Jackson 1954
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Scelidosaurus sp.
Owen 1859
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1 individual | |||||||||
| juvenile, NHMUK R6704 | ||||||||||
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= Fabrosauridae indet.
Galton 1972
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Thulborn 1977 | |||||||||
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= Scelidosaurus harrisonii
Owen 1861
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Norman 2020 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Ammonoidea indet.
Zittel 1884
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Rixon 1968 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 3.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Sinemurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Sinemurian | Ammonoid zone: | Asteroceras obtusum |
| Age range of interval: | 199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Lias | Formation: | Charmouth Mudstone | Member: | Black Ven Marl |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: probably from the Topstones Bed | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fossil from a Flatstone Nodule | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),acetic,field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
| Collectors: | G. F. Jackson | Collection dates: | 1954 |
| Collection method comments: privately collected and sold to BMNH in 1955; originally in Lyme Regis Museum | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 52749 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-19 10:26:33 | Last modified: | 2021-12-02 11:20:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-19 10:26:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54253. | Anonymous. 1955. British Museum (Natural History). Nature 176(4487):815-816 [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] |
| 27171 | ETE | B. H. Newman. 1968. The Jurassic dinosaur Scelidosaurus harrisoni, Owen. Palaeontology 11(1):40-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 78792 | D. B. Norman. 2020. Scelidosaurus harrisonii from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England: cranial anatomy. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(1):1-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 14201 | ETE | A. E. Rixon. 1968. The development of the remains of a small Scelidosaurus from a Lias nodule. Museums Journal 67:315-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14202 | ETE | R. A. Thulborn. 1977. Relationships of the Lower Jurassic dinosaur Scelidosaurus harrisonii. Journal of Paleontology 51(4):725-739 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |