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Elgin Reptiles is the name given to the Permian and Triassic fossils found in the sandstone deposits in and around the town of Elgin, in Moray, Scotland.They are of historical and scientific importance, and many of the specimens are housed in the Elgin Museum, and some in the Hunterian in Glasgow, and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
The only known fossil of Saltopus was discovered in 1867 by William Taylor in the Lossiemouth West & East Quarries. It was initially named as a specimen of Telerpeton elginense (now Leptopleuron lacertinum) by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1867, [4] and it was later named and described by Friedrich von Huene in 1910 as the type species Saltopus elginensis.
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The Hopeman Sandstone Formation is a geologic formation in Scotland. [1] It preserves fossil footprints and body fossils from the Guadalupian Epoch in the Late Permian, to the Early Triassic, [2] It preserves fossils and fossil footprints from various extinct animals such as pareiasaurs and dicynodonts, which are collectively often referred to as the Elgin Reptiles.
Fossils of land-dwelling animals, such as dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic are relatively rare, [3] but geological formations containing land animal fossils include the Forest Marble Formation in England, the Kilmaluag Formation in Scotland, [4] the Calcaire de Caen of France, [5] the Daohugou Beds in China, the Itat Formation in Russia, the ...
This is a partial list of dinosaur finds in the United Kingdom, arranged by genus alphabetically. List of dinosaurs Genus Picture Period Discovery locations and dates Acanthopholis Cretaceous (late) Folkestone, Kent in c. 1865 Gault, Kent in 2000 Altispinax Cretaceous (early) Battle, East Sussex in 1856 Anoplosaurus Cretaceous (early) Cambridgeshire, no later than 1878 Aristosuchus Cretaceous ...
Previously, the oldest record of dinosaurs was from Brazil and Argentina and dated back to the mid-late Carnian stage, about 233.23 to 231.4 million years ago. Nyasasaurus comes from a deposit conventionally considered Anisian in age, meaning that it would predate other early dinosaurs by about 12 million years. [ 1 ]
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