Battle, Hastings (Hastings Beds) (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Huene 74

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hastings Beds Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Berriasian to Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• 'Hastings Beds' now a subgroup that includes the Ashdown Formation, the Wadhurst Clay Formation and the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, ferruginous claystone

• "nodule of the ferruginous clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by S. H. Beckles, W. Buckland; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London 1-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52571: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
"Megalosaurus bucklandi" = Megalosaurus bucklandii
"Megalosaurus bucklandi" = Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell 1827 tetanuran theropod
dorsal, 2 caudals, zygapophyses
 Theropoda -
"? Acrocanthosaurus altispinax n. sp." = Becklespinax altispinax
"? Acrocanthosaurus altispinax n. sp." = Becklespinax altispinax Paul 1988 tetanuran theropod
BMNH R.1828