North of Cuckfield (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

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 122900: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata -
cf. Eusuchia indet.
cf. Eusuchia indet. crocodilian
NHMUK 36526 (three articulated thoracic vertebral bodies, at least one of which is procoelous), and NHMUK 36527 (isolated vertebra, possibly procoelous)