Dogsthorpe brick pit: Middle Callovian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cuvier 1798
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| Cephalopod hooklets | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
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Belemnoidea indet.
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1 specimen | belemnite |
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| Fragment of guard | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Archosauria
- Metriorhynchidae
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Metriorhynchus sp.
von Meyer 1830
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1 individual | archosaur |
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| LEIUG 90985, partial skeleton with stomach contents | ||||||||||
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? Pterosauria indet.
(Kaup 1834)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Hollow bones, possibly wing-phalanges | ||||||||||
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= ? Metriorhynchus sp.
von Meyer 1830
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Unwin 1996 | archosaur |
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| "Probably belonged to the crocodile" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Cambridgeshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.6° North, 0.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 9.7° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Callovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Callovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 164.7 - 161.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lower Oxford Clay | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The specimen lay mainly within bed 10, but also within bed 11 of the Jason Zone and Subzone of the Lower Oxford Clay" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bed 10 is a fissile bituminous shale, bed 11 is a Gryphaea shell bed | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,shellbed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Taphonomy comments: Stomach contents preserved | |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: LEIUG 90985: University of Leicester, Department of Geology | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 92051 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-28 03:00:45 | Last modified: | 2009-10-28 05:04:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-28 03:00:45 |
Reference information
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