Also known as Conaisaurus referred specimen locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 2.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Zig Zag Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Lower Chalk (Lower Greys), just below Plenus Marls. Hay Cliff Member of Abbot's Cliff Formation now = uppermost Zig Zag Chalk Formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in <1850; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. W. Caldwell and J. A. Cooper. 1999. Redescription, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Coniasaurus crassidens Owen, 1850 (Squamata) from the Lower Chalk (Cretaceous; Cenomanian) of SE England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 127:423-452 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118409: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 14.10.2011

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