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Peterborough pterosaurs: Middle Callovian, United Kingdom
collected 1900

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchus sp. Meyer 1847
Martill 1988 2 individuals
BMNH R1995, right ulna and partial humeri; BMNH R4759, wing-phalanx 1
    = Rhamphorhynchidae indet. Seeley 1870
Unwin 1996
see common names
Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.6° North, 0.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 9.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:early 1900s
Metadata
Database number:92053
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-28 03:28:13 Last modified:2009-10-28 05:33:03
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-28 03:28:13
Reference information
Primary reference:
30974 C. W. Andrews. 1911. The fossil reptiles of the Oxford Clay. Transactions of the Ealing Natural History and Microscopy Society 1911-12:6-8 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

30975 E. T. Leeds. 1956. The Leeds Collection of fossil reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough, Oxford, Blackwells, 104 pp [R. Butler/R. Butler]
14480ETE D. M. Martill. 1988. A review of the terrestrial vertebrate of fossils of the Oxford Clay (Callovian-Oxfordian) of England. Mercian Geologist 11(3):171-190 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]