Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pectinatites wheatleyensis ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• "approximately 1 m below the top of the Kimmeridge Clay" PJW: Was Kimmeridgian, but Pectinatites wheatleyensis zone is Early Tithonian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Forbes in 1958

Primary reference: C. McGowan. 1976. The description and phenetic relationships of a new ichthyosaur genus from the Upper Jurassic of England. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13(5):668-683 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106362: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.03.2011

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