Rudgwick Brickworks Quarry (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green marl and brown claystone

• "uniformaly grey-green marl beds about 30 cm thick, resting on brown clay at the quarry floor level"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected in 1985

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. T. Blows. 1996. A new species of Polacanthus (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Sussex, England. Geological Magazine 133(6):671-682 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59350: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Polacanthus rudgwickensis n. sp.
Polacanthus rudgwickensis n. sp. Blows 1996 ankylosaur
HORSM 1988.1546
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
teeth