Street-on-the-Fosse (Pylle), ~4 km south of Shepton Mallet (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Rhomaleosauridae
Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus n. sp. Stutchbury 1846 plesiosaur
BRSMG Cb2335 (holotype skeleton - destroyed)