Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by W. Hulke, Davies, C. Pearce; reposited in the BMNH
• Goniopholis was acquired from a dealer in Swanage; brought to Hulke by Mr. Davies, his assistant
Primary reference: J. W. Hulke. 1878. Note on two skulls from the Wealden and Purbeck Formations indicating a new subgroup of Crocodilia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 34:377-382 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92916: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chelone obovata n. sp.6
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Plesiochelys sp.5 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle BMNH 21351x (left hyoplastral), 23407x (right hyoplastral), R1615 (left hypo- and xiphiplastral)
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Ornithocheiridae indet.8 Seeley 1870 pterosaur BMNH R.11958, partial mandible. "Ornithocheirus species A"
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Plesiosauria indet.4 de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur BMNH 21974, a small left propodial bone from the Middle Purbeck Beds of Swanage, purchased in 1848, but without specific collections data, said to resemble Cimoliosaurus haasti (now Mauisaurus haasti)
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