Eynesbury, near St. Neots (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Enysbury, St Neots, Saint Neots

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. J. Evan Esq. in <1869

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

• CAMSM, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

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 119670: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 31.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus evansi n. sp. Seeley 1869 plesiosaur
CAMSM J.46910 (holotype, associated vertebrae); BMNH 47837 is a cast of the atlas-axis complex