Beach northeast of Yaverland coastal car park (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Koumpiodontosuchus aprosdokiti type locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Between beds 26 and 38

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

• The plant debris beds, which comprise localized debris flow deposits and which make up only a small proportion of the succession, contain a highly diverse fauna and flora derived from a variety of terrestrial and freshwater environments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2011

Primary reference: S. C. Sweetman, U. Pedreira-Segade, and S. U. Vidovic. 2015. A new bernissartiid crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation (Wealden Group, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(2):257-268 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154774: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 11.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata - Bernissartiidae
Koumpiodontosuchus aprosdokiti n. gen. n. sp.
Koumpiodontosuchus aprosdokiti n. gen. n. sp. Sweetman et al. 2015 crocodilian
Combined specimens IWCMS 2012.203–204, the posterior and rostral parts respectively of a substantially complete, isolated skull comprising the cranium and mandibles in occlusion with it