Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 1.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Lias Formation, Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• 'Pre-planorbis beds'
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Bristol City Museum
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 119285: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus n. sp.
Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus n. sp. Stutchbury 1846 plesiosaur BRSMG Cb2335 (holotype skeleton - destroyed)
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