Also known as Portland Island

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• 'Portland Oolite'

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Bright in < 1874; reposited in the BMNH

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

• presented to BM(NH) in 1874

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia 1-239 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127647: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.05.2012

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