Also known as Attenborosaurus conybeari type locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Asteroceras obtusum ammonoid zone, Charmouth Mudstone Formation (Lias Group), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• "Lower Lias, 7 feet above the 'boulder bed', Ammonites obtusus"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Samuel Clarke in 1879 or 1880

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Bristol City Museum collection, now destroyed

Primary reference: W. J. Sollas. 1881. On a new species of Plesiosaurus (P. Conybeari) from the Lower Lias of Charmouth; with observations on P megacephalus, Stutchbury, and P. brachycephalus, Owen. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:440-480 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118882: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 17.10.2011

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