Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wm. Cunnington in 1853; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• DORCM, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, UK
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1853. Part I. A monograph on the fossil chelonian reptiles of the Wealden clays and Purbeck limestones. Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Palaeontographical Society 7(25):1-12 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127480: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.05.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Helochelydra anglica4 Lydekker 1889 turtle BMNH 46325, right hyoplastral (listed in Cunnington Collection by Lydekker (1889, catalogue, p. 142)
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Pleurosternon bullocki2, Pleurosternon bullocki3, "Pleurosternon concinnum n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii
Pleurosternon bullocki2 turtle BMNH 46324 (posterior part of the left half of the plastron), 24816 (left humerus)
Pleurosternon bullocki3 turtle includes BMNH 46317, paralectotype carapace and plastron; listed as in the Cunnington Collection by Lydekker (1889), figured by Owen (1854, plates 5-6)
"Pleurosternon concinnum n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii Owen 1842 turtle includes DORCM G.17, holotype juvenile carapace and plastron
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