Durlston Bay (DB102/103) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Cherty Freshwater Mbr now = top of Worbarrow Tour Mbr

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Ensom in <2000

Collection methods: sieve,

• DORCM, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, UK

Primary reference: P. Ensom and D. Sigogneau-Russell. 2000. New symmetrodonts (Mammalia, Theria) from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Lower Cretaceous, southern England. Cretaceous Research 21:767-779 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 122769: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 05.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Spalacotheriidae
Spalacotherium evansae Ensom and Sigogneau-Russell 2000 mammal
DORCM GS 308, 309, 312, 314, sample 01 (teeth)
 Theriamorpha - Paurodontidae
? Paurodontidae indet. Marsh 1887 mammal
DORCM GS 313, 315 (last two upper molars)