Wichford, near Haddenham and Ely (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Witchford

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in <1869

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• CAMSM, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119606: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 30.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus macrodeirus n. sp. Seeley 1869 plesiosaur
CAMSM specimen (holotype)