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
Thecospondylus horneri n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1882
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:

14142ETE 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]
30971ETE 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]