Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’: re-description of a metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Headington, England
Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’: re-description of a metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Headington, England
Re-description of a long-known, but little studied, metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian of England begins to help fill the ‘Corallian Gap’. This ‘Gap’ represents a paucity of vertebrate remains from the Oxfordian of England. Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’ has important implications for our understanding of metriorhynchids from England, especially as there was a shift in this ecosystem from being metriorhynchine dominated in the older Oxford Clay Formation, to a geosaurine-dominated fauna in the younger Kimmeridge Clay Formation. The re-description of the specimen reveals that it is a member of the derived subclade Geosaurini, which most likely pertains to the genus Torvoneustes.
Crocodylomorpha, Corallian Gap, Geosaurini, Metriorhynchidae, Oxfordian, Torvoneustes
80-90
Young, Mark T.
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2014
Young, Mark T.
d9880973-1dd1-4b1c-81a8-7494170dbac2
Young, Mark T.
(2014)
Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’: re-description of a metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Headington, England.
Historical Biology, 26 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/08912963.2012.760559).
Abstract
Re-description of a long-known, but little studied, metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian of England begins to help fill the ‘Corallian Gap’. This ‘Gap’ represents a paucity of vertebrate remains from the Oxfordian of England. Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’ has important implications for our understanding of metriorhynchids from England, especially as there was a shift in this ecosystem from being metriorhynchine dominated in the older Oxford Clay Formation, to a geosaurine-dominated fauna in the younger Kimmeridge Clay Formation. The re-description of the specimen reveals that it is a member of the derived subclade Geosaurini, which most likely pertains to the genus Torvoneustes.
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Published date: 2014
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Crocodylomorpha, Corallian Gap, Geosaurini, Metriorhynchidae, Oxfordian, Torvoneustes
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Ocean and Earth Science
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/361857
ISSN: 0891-2963
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