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Dogsthorpe brick pit: Middle Callovian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1798
Cephalopod hooklets
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnoidea indet.
1 specimen
Fragment of guard
Reptilia - Archosauria - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchus sp. von Meyer 1830
1 individual
LEIUG 90985, partial skeleton with stomach contents
? Pterosauria indet. (Kaup 1834)
2 specimens
Hollow bones, possibly wing-phalanges
    = ? Metriorhynchus sp. von Meyer 1830
Unwin 1996
"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
Primary reference:
30973 D. M. Martill. 1986. The diet of Metriorhynchus, a Mesozoic marine crocodile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geoogie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1986:621-625 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

30893 D. M. Unwin. 1996. The fossil record of Middle Jurassic pterosaurs. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:291-304 [R. Butler/R. Butler]