Vertebrate fauna of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of England, UK
Type Horizon and Locality: Early Jurassic, Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Lias Group (Late Sinemurian - Early Pliensbachian) Lyme Regis, England, UK
The Charmouth Mudstone Formation in Dorset, England, is known from several fossils of marine reptiles. It contains some remains of dinosaurs, including Scelidosaurus and an unamed tetanuran theropod. Fish include the bizarre chimaerid Myriacanthus.
Represented here:
Archaeonectrus rostratus (Owen, 1865), a short-necked plesiosaur
Attenborosaurus conybeari (Solas, 1881), a plesiosaur named after Sir David Attenborough
Ichthyosaurus anningae Lomax & Massare, 2015, a late species of Ichthyosaurus named after Mary Anning
Myriacanthus paradoxus Agassiz, 1837, an odd looking ancient relative of the ratfish
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Conybeare, 1824, the archetypal long-necked plesiosaur
Scelidosaurus harrisonii Owen, 1861, a quadrupedal and facultative bipedal armored ornithischian dinosaur
April 5, 2020
References:
Conybeare, W. D. (1824). On the Discovery of an almost perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2(2), 381-389.
Lomax, D. R., & Massare, J. A. (2015). A new species of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of West Dorset, England, UK. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35(2), e903260.
Martill, D. M., Batten, D. J., & Loydell, D. K. (2000). A new specimen of the thyreophoran dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation. Palaeontology, 43(3), 549-559.
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