Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 9.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wealden Group, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)
• "probably Ashdown Formation"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mantell
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1887. On Heterosuchus valdensis, Seeley, a procoelian crocodile from the Hastings Sand of Hastings. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 43:212-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118046: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Heterosuchus valdensis n. gen. n. sp.
Heterosuchus valdensis n. gen. n. sp. Seeley 1887 crocodilian BMNH R36555 - holotype (articulated series of 12 procoelous cervical, thoracic, lumar and sacral vertebrae)
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