Bedford marine reptiles (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• CAMSM (Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge), OUMNH (Oxford University Museum of Natural History)

Primary reference: D. S. Brown. 1981. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 35(4):253-347 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119503: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Cryptoclidus eurymerus n. sp. Phillips 1871 plesiosaur
Holotype (lost)