Northern end of Durlston Bay: Late/Upper Berriasian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis kiplingi n. sp.
Andrade et al. 2011
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DORCM 12154 - type (well-preserved skull, dorsoventrally flattened, lacking mandibles and most teeth) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 1.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 7.9° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Berriasian | ||
Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 140.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Purbeck | Formation: | Durlston | Member: | Stair Hole |
Local section: | Intermarine beds | Local bed: | 129b | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Bed 129b (Clements, 1993), Intermarine beds sensu Wimbledon in Benton & Spencer(1995; = Intermarine Member sensu Clements, 1993), Stair Hole Member sensu Westhead & Mather (1996), Purbeck Limestone Group; Berriasian, Lower Cretaceous (Salisbury et al., 1999; Milner & Batten, 2002).
Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,gray,white sandy "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | calcareous mudstone |
Lithology description: Alternating layers of sandy limestone and calcareous mudstone. The matrix shows centimetric to millimetric layers of fine sediment, mostly greyish to whitish in colour | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Geology comments: A weak aqueous flux was present during the depositional process. A strong current is unlikely, as it would have turned over the skull prior to definitive burial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Goniopholis kiplingi type locality | ||
Database number: | 123271 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-01-17 03:32:54 | Last modified: | 2022-03-17 09:45:13 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-01-17 03:32:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
39475. | M. B. d. Andrade, R. Edmonds, M. J. Benton and R. Schouten. 2011. A new Berriasian species of Goniopholis (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S66-S108 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |