Cryptoclidus sp FORREST, 2003

Locality: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

BMNH R54 (B): Fragment of maxilla, bearing a single broken tooth, isolated broken tooth, fragment of lower jaw consisting of partial articular and fragment of suarangular, right scapula, atlas/axis with partial neural arch, 12 cervical centra, 1 pectoral centrum, 7 dorsal centra, 6 more or less complete dorsal neural arches, fragment from base of right side of pectoral neural arch, 5 cervical ribs, 3 fragmentary posterior cervical or dorsal ribs, 1 almost complete, a small fragment of bone, possibly a zygapophysis is attached to one of the dorsal ribs, 8 fragments of gastral ribs and indeterminate bone fragment.

Note: Bears tooth marks on its cervical vertebrae which show that it was the object of post-mortem scavenging by the marine crocodilian Metriorhynchus.