Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 9.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grinstead Clay Member (Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• In the 'Cuckfield Stone' of the Grinstead Clay Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. W. Willett in ca. 1877
Primary reference: J. W. Hulke. 1878. Note on two skulls from the Wealden and Purbeck Formations indicating a new subgroup of Crocodilia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 34:377-382 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122889: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Goniopholis willetti n. sp." = Hulkepholis willetti
"Goniopholis willetti n. sp." = Hulkepholis willetti Salisbury and Naish 2011 crocodilian BMB 001876 - a nearly complete skull (approximately 55 cm total length; estimated body length 3.5 m), missing only portions of the left infratemporal and preorbital region, part of the left lacrimal, the posterior part of the right maxilla, the right ectopterygoid, and the lateral parts of the pterygoids
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