Southborough quarry (BMNH): Late/Upper Berriasian - Valanginian, United Kingdom
collected by Horner 1882
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Thecospondylus horneri n. gen., n. sp.
Seeley 1882
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1 specimen | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Saurischia | ||||||||||
BMNH R.291 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Kent |
Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 0.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.0° North, 9.7° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 76 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Berriasian - Valanginian | ||
Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 132.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Wealden | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Hastings Sand." 'Hastings Beds' now a subgroup that includes the Ashdown Formation, the Wadhurst Clay Formation and the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
Collectors: | Horner | Collection dates: | 1882 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Thecospondylus type | ||
Database number: | 36577 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-02-05 08:45:51 | Last modified: | 2017-07-17 14:04:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-05 08:45:51 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9792. | H. G. Seeley. 1882. On Thecospondylus horneri, a new dinosaur from the Hastings Sand, indicated by the sacrum and the neural canal of the sacral region. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 38:457-460 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
14142 | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
30971 | ETE | A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London 1-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |