Also known as BMNH
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.5° N, 23.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (125.8 - 121.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Fox; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• collected by Fox, sold to BMNH 1882
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1887. On a sacrum, apparently indicating a new type of bird, Ornithodesmus cluniculus, Seeley, from the Wealden of Brook. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:206-211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48853: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
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Taxonomic list
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Ornithodesmus cluniculus n. sp. Seeley 1887 pterosaur BMNH R187 (holotype), poorly preserved sacrum of six vertebrae
"Ornithodesmus latidens n. sp." = Istiodactylus latidens5 Seeley 1901 pterosaur BMNH R176 (holotype), part of a poorly preserved skeleton. CAMMZ T706, partial skull (may be from same individual as the holotype)
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Lithostrotia indet.1 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod NHMUK R5333 (two caudal vertebrae and the posterior condyle of a third caudal vertebra in articulation)
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