ammonites
Williamson Cliffe brick-pit, Rutland (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Great Casterton Quarry

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rutland Formation, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• beds are near the base of the "Upper Estuarine Series" (= Rutland Fm.), on top of subjacent Lincolnshire Limestone Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; pyritic, black, carbonaceous shale and lithified ironstone

• "These beds are interpreted as lake bottom and deltaic bottomset sediments
• Fossils in ironstone nodules, which are from a bed within a series of carbonaceous black shales. High organic content to the enclosing clays, which form iron-pyrite and selenite on and in the bones.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1968

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. D. Jones. 1970. Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, Phillips J. A middle Jurassic sauropod from Rutland, England. Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 64:144-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27876: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 15.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives)

Williamson Cliffe brick-pit, Rutland: Late/Upper Bajocian, United Kingdom
collected 1968

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiola sp. Lamarck 1801
corrected as Modiolus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Neaera sp. Gray 1834
invalid subgroup of Cuspidariidae
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Cetiosauridae
Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips 1871
1 specimen
(10 measurements)
Ginkgoopsida - Ginkgoales
Ginkgoales indet. Goroschankin 1904
Equisetopsida - Equisetales
Equisetales indet. Dumortier 1829
Cycadeoideopsida - Bennettitales
Bennettitales indet. Bessey 1910
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Leicestershire
Coordinates: 52.6° North, 0.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 9.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Bajocian
Age range of interval:171.6 - 167.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rutland
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: beds are near the base of the "Upper Estuarine Series" (= Rutland Fm.), on top of subjacent Lincolnshire Limestone Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pyritic,black carbonaceous "shale"
Secondary lithology: lithified ironstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fossils in ironstone nodules, which are from a bed within a series of carbonaceous black shales. High organic content to the enclosing clays, which form iron-pyrite and selenite on and in the bones.
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "These beds are interpreted as lake bottom and deltaic bottomset sediments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Articulated whole bodies:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1968
Metadata
Also known as:Great Casterton Quarry
Database number:27876
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-01-15 10:55:48 Last modified:2009-01-13 15:35:43
Access level:the public Released:2003-01-15 10:55:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY-NC-ND
Reference information
Primary reference:
7643 M. D. Jones. 1970. Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, Phillips J. A middle Jurassic sauropod from Rutland, England. Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 64:144-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14461ETE P. M. Upchurch and J. Martin. 2002. The Rutland Cetiosaurus: the anatomy and relationships of a Middle Jurassic British sauropod dinosaur. Palaeontology 45(6):1049-1074 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]