Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [Bowerbank Collection] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone

• 'fresh-water limestone'

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bowerbank; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127646: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Tretosternon punctatum n. gen. n. sp.
Tretosternon punctatum n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1842 turtle
BMNH 39457 (syntype half plastron)