Bed L2, Sudmoor Point (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• "Bed L2"

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; muddy conglomerate

• Wessex Formation was "deposited in a meander-belt river system with a dominant flow direction from west to east"
• Bed L2 is a "plant debris bed". "The lower part of most plant debris beds comprises a poorly sorted, matrix-supported conglomerate. The upper part of most consists of structureless mudstone, which usually grades up into colour-mottled but predominantly red and purple floodplain mudstones." (Sweetman & Insole 2010 PPP 292:409)

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Sweetman

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• IWCMS: Isle of Wight County Museum Service

Primary reference: S. C. Sweetman and D. M. Martill. 2010. Pterosaurs of the Wessex Formation (Earl Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England: a review with new data. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):225-242 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101090: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.12.2010, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Spalacotheriidae
Yaverlestes gassoni1
Yaverlestes gassoni1 Sweetman 2008 mammal
BMNH M 45561, an abraded lower left molariform
Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834 pterosaur
IWCMS.2002.29, tooth
 Pterosauria - Ctenochasmatidae
? Gnathosaurinae indet.
? Gnathosaurinae indet. Unwin 1992 ctenochasmatid
IWCMS.2002.28, tooth
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Wesserpeton evansae2
Wesserpeton evansae2 Sweetman and Gardner 2013 tetrapod
frontals BMNH PV R36539 and R36522 and dentaries R36553–36558
1Sweetman 2008; 2Sweetman and Gardner 2013