Also known as ?Smith's Quarry
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sharp's Hill Formation (Great Oolite Group), Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• Probably Sharp's Hill Beds, Sharp's Hill Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Earl of Ducie in the 1880s; reposited in the BMNH
• "presented by the Earl of Ducie"
Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52546: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.08.2005, edited by Kaitlin Maguire and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris n. sp." = Rhamphocephalus depressirostris2
"Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris n. sp." = Rhamphocephalus depressirostris2 Huxley 1859 pterosaur GSM 113723, holotype mandible. Additional mandibular material, teeth, scapulocoracoids, limb bones
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"Megalosaurus bucklandi" = Megalosaurus bucklandii
"Megalosaurus bucklandi" = Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell 1827 tetanuran theropod metatarsal (BMNH R.413) and tooth
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