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Stonesfield pterosaurs (PROXY): Middle Bathonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterodactylus bucklandi n. sp. Meyer 1832
1 specimen
recombined as Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Holotype mandible
Rhamphocephalus bucklandi (Meyer 1832)
Unwin 1996 100 specimens
Hundreds of isolated bones, representing all parts of the skeleton
Pterodactylus aclandi n. sp. Owen 1874
Owen 1874 1 specimen
synonym of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Holotype wing-phalanx
Pterodactylus duncani n. sp. Owen 1874
Owen 1874 1 specimen
synonym of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Holotype wing-phalanx
Pterodactylus kiddi n. sp. Owen 1874
Owen 1874 1 specimen
synonym of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Holotype wing-phalanx
see common names
Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Oxfordshire
Coordinates: 51.9° North, 1.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 8.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Middle Bathonian
Age range of interval:167.7 - 164.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Great Oolite Formation:Taynton Limestone Member:Stonesfield Slates
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: "Deposition following storm events in shallow marine conditions"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection,salvage
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH,OUM
Metadata
Database number:92057
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-28 06:18:01 Last modified:2009-10-28 08:20:38
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-28 06:18:01
Reference information
Primary reference:
30954 T. H. Huxley. 1859. On Rhamphorhynchus bucklandi a new pterosaurian from the Stonesfield Slate. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15:658-670 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

30979 R. Owen. 1874. The fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part 1. Pterosauria. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 27(126):1-14 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
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]