Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chilmark Member (Portland Stone Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• "Portland oolite"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mr W. R. Brodie in <1871
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens at Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge (CAMSM)
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1871. On a new species of Plesiosaurus from the Portland limestone. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4th series) 8:181-185 [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140703: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiosaurus winspitensis n. sp.
Plesiosaurus winspitensis n. sp. Seeley 1871 plesiosaur CAMSM J.5345, J.5346: cervical and pectoral vertebrae
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