Sudmore Point-Chilton Chine (MIWG) (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• from plant debris bed L1, above Sudmoor Point Sandstone Member (SS2)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sideritic, intraclastic, yellow mudstone

• "beige sideritic mudstone with fragments of plant debris and mud clasts"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Leng in 1992

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Naish, D. M. Martill, D. Cooper and K. A. Stevens. 2004. Europe's largest dinosaur? A giant brachiosaurid cervical vertebra from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England. Cretaceous Research 25(6):787-795 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48328: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Valdosaurus canaliculatus2
Valdosaurus canaliculatus2 Galton 1975 ornithopod
MIWG.6438, hind limb
 Saurischia -
Somphospondyli indet.1
Somphospondyli indet.1 Wilson and Sereno 1998 sauropod
MIWG.7306, IWCMS 2003.28
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant debris"
1Mannion et al. 2013; 2Naish and Martill 2001