Also known as Barrow on Soar

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 1.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Psiloceras planorbis ammonoid zone, Bottom Floor Limestone Member (Blue Lias Formation), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Barely 2 metres above the local Rhaetian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by William Lee in >1851

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, acetic

• New Walk Museum, Leicester, UK (LEICS)

Primary reference: A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1994. Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus (Stutchbury) (Reptilia: Plesiosauria). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 343:247-260 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119284: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.10.2011

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