Thaumatodracon weidenrothi type locality: Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by Kurt Wiedenroth
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Rhomaleosauridae
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Thaumatodracon weidenrothi n. gen., n. sp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NLMH 106.058 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 3.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Sinemurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Sinemurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Black Ven Mudstone Member of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation (Sinemurian, Lower Jurassic) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Encrustation: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Kurt Wiedenroth |
Metadata
| Database number: | 188798 | ||
| Authorizer: | V. Fischer | Enterer: | V. Fischer |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-09-19 08:17:40 | Last modified: | 2018-12-12 10:18:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-09-19 08:17:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63390. | A. S. Smith and R. Araújo. 2017. Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi, a morphometrically and stratigraphically intermediate new rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Lyme Regis. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 308(4–6):89-125 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer] |