Brook Bay (Mantell collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Mantell; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1887. On Heterosuchus valdensis, Seeley, a procoelian crocodile from the Hastings Sand of Hastings. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 43:212-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122898: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.01.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata -
cf. Eusuchia indet.2, cf. Eusuchia indet.2
cf. Eusuchia indet.2 crocodilian
NHMUK 36524 (isolated procoelous caudal). Seeley (1887) indicated that this could not be referred to "Heterosuchus valdensis"
cf. Eusuchia indet.2 crocodilian
NHMUK 36525 (isolated procoelous thoracic vertebra)
 Saurischia -
Cetiosaurus brevis1, Ornithopsis hulkei n. sp.3
Cetiosaurus brevis1 Owen 1842 sauropod
BMNH 28640-1
Ornithopsis hulkei n. sp.3 Seeley 1870 sauropod
BMNH 28632, posterior dorsal vertebra
1Lydekker 1888; 2Salisbury and Naish 2011; 3Seeley 1870