Also known as Brodiechelys brodiei type locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 9.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shepherd's Chine Member (Vectis Formation), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• Turtles collected over a long interval from Atherfield Point, possible representing a single population from a single horizon, inferred from identical preservation, by Milner (2011)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Various, including Wm. White, Rev. W. P Brodie, Hastings in ~1855 onwards; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)

• Turtles collected over a long interval from Atherfield Point, possible representing a single population from a single horizon, inferred from identical preservation, by Milner (2011)

Primary reference: A. R. Milner. 2011. Turtles. Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:295-304 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127436: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 14.05.2012

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