Dinosaur footprints from the Duntulm Formation (Bathonian, Jurassic) of the Isle of Skye

Clark, Neil D. L.; Booth, Paul; Booth, C.L.; Ross, Dugald A.

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“…Limestone bands, stromatolitic algal limestones and burrowed calcareous sandstones yielding dinosaur footprints (Clark et al 2004) occur higher in the section. At the type locality at Cairidh Ghlumaig, at Duntulm in NW Trotternish, a marine influence is indicated by the appearance of the bivalves Pacunopsis, Cuspidaria, Modiolus and subsequently Praeexogyra.…”

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“…Scotland boasts one of the world's premier Middle Jurassic small vertebrate faunas (Evans & Milner 1994;Evans et al 2006), which includes spectacularly well-preserved specimens of one of the oldest turtles (Anquetin et al 2009) and some of the closest relatives of mammals (Waldman & Savage 1972). Tantalizing bones and footprints of dinosaurs have been found in several Early-Middle Jurassic units, making Scotland one of the rare places in the world to yield dinosaurs from this under-sampled time interval (Andrews & Hudson 1984;Clark et al 1995Clark et al , 2004Clark et al , 2005Clark & Rodríguez 1998;Clark 2001;Liston 2004;Marshall 2005;Barrett 2006). Most of these new discoveries have come to light over the past 25 years and, during this time, Scotland has emerged as a growing, but still underappreciated, centre of Mesozoic vertebrate palaeontology research.…”

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Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland

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Young

Challands

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Fossils of Mesozoic vertebrates are rare in Scotland, particularly specimens of marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. We describe a suite of ichthyosaur fossils from the Early to Middle Jurassic of Skye, which to our knowledge are the first ichthyosaurs from Scotland to be described and figured in detail. These fossils span approximately 30 million years, from the Sinemurian to the Bathonian, and indicate that ichthyosaurs were a major component of Scottish marine faunas during this time. The specimens include isolated teeth that could represent the most northerly known occurrences of the widespread Sinemurian species Ichthyosaurus communis, a characteristic component of the famous Lyme Regis faunas of England, suggesting that such faunas were also present in Scotland during the Early Jurassic. An associated humerus and vertebrae from Toarcian-Bajocian-aged deposits are named as a new genus and species of basal neoichthyosaurian, Dearcmhara shawcrossi. The taxonomic affinities of this taxon, which comes from a critical but poorly sampled interval in the fossil record, suggest that non-ophthalmosaurid neoichthyosaurians dominated European assemblages around the Early-Middle Jurassic boundary, and were later replaced by ophthalmosaurids, whose radiation likely took place outside Europe. Many of these specimens were collected by amateurs and donated to museum collections, a co-operative relationship essential to the preservation of Scotland's fossil heritage.

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Section: Duntulm Formationmentioning

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Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland

Brusatte

Young

Challands

et al. 2015

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“…This 49cm long footprint is thought to have been made by an ornithopod (Andrews and Hudson, 1984;Delair and Sarjeant, 1985). Since then dinosaur footprints and trackways have been found in the Valtos Sandstone Formation (Bathonian) near Staffin at Dun Dearg and Kilt Rock (Clark and Barco Rodriguez, 1998;Clark, 2001a), and the Duntulm Formation (Bathonian) near Staffin at An Corran (Clark et al, 2004).…”

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“…Other smaller footprints closer to 12cm in length have since been found as well as larger ornithopod footprints about 40cm long all from the Valtos Sandstone Formation near Kilt Rock, Trotternish Peninsula. More recently, very large (>50cm ) in situ footprints from the Duntulm Formation at An Corran, Staffin Bay were found that appeared to be directed mostly towards the northeast (Clark et al, 2004).…”

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“…A theropod tibia was found in the Broadford Beds Formation (Hettangian) in the Strathaird Peninsula, southern Isle of Skye (Benton et al, 1995), a thyreophoran ulna and radius came from the Bearreraig Sandstone Formation (Bajocian) at Bearreraig Bay, northern Isle of Skye (Clark, 2001b), and cetiosaur bones and a coelophysid-like tail bone were discovered in the Valtos Sandstone Formation at Dun Dearg near Staffin (Clark et al, 1995;Clark et al, 2004).…”

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Dinosaur Tracks from the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Score Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

Clark

Ross

Booth³

2005

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INTRODUCTIONIn late 2002, dinosaur footprints were discovered on loose blocks of sandstone, as well as in situ, on the foreshore at Lub Score, northwest Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK (Fig. 1). The majority of these footprints were much smaller than any previously found in Scotland, and were closely associated with larger footprints of what seems likely to be the same species. These footprints are stratigraphically younger than any other dinosaur remains found in Scotland to date, and are different from those found elsewhere from the Middle Jurassic succession on the Isle of Skye (Fig. 2).

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