Quest Pit, east of Stewartby: Early/Lower Callovian, United Kingdom
collected by Mr C. Andrew, Mr M. Evans and Mr A. Garbutt 1998

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Marmornectes candrewi n. gen., n. sp. Ketchum and Benson 2011
1 specimen
BEDFM 1999.201 (holotype partial skeleton)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Bedfordshire
Coordinates: 52.1° North, 0.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° North, 9.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Callovian Ammonoid zone: Sigaloceras enodatum
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Oxford Clay Member:Peterborough
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Mr C. Andrew, Mr M. Evans and Mr A. Garbutt Collection dates:1998
Collection method comments: Bedford Museum, Bedford, UK
Metadata
Also known as:Marmornectes type locality
Database number:118199
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-10-08 02:27:26 Last modified:2017-05-19 13:27:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-08 02:27:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38068. H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson. 2011. A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford CLay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids. Special Papers in Palaeontology 86:109-129 [R. Benson/R. Benson]