east of Sandown Fort (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 9.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wealden Group, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous sandstone

• "iron-sand"; "ferruginous sand"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Smith, W. Buckland in 1825, 1829; reposited in the OUM

Primary reference: W. Buckland. 1829. On the discovery of the bones of the Iguanodon, and other large reptiles, in the Isle of Wight and Isle of Purbeck. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1(13):159-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52569: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Together with our metacarpal bone, there were found at Sandown Bay some vertebrae and fragments of other bones of smaller reptiles; and in the same place also about four years ago, the Rev. Gerard Smith discovered part of a very large bone, probably a fragment of a coracoid bone, or of the pelvis, which is also in the Oxford Museum."
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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp.
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
ungual, OUM