Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Bullock; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Purchased from Bullock's Museum
Primary reference: R. Lydekker and G. A. Boulenger. 1887. Notes on Chelonia from the Purbeck, Wealden and London-Clay. Geological Magazine 4:270-275 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127482: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.05.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Platemys bullockii n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii2, "Pleurosternon oweni n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii3, "Pleurosternon vansittarti n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii3, "Pleurosternon sedgwicki n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii3, "Megasternon koenigii n. gen. n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii1
"Platemys bullockii n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii2 Owen 1842 turtle BMNH R911 (holotype plastron)—incorrectly stated as coming from the London Clay by Owen
"Pleurosternon oweni n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii3 Owen 1842 turtle CAMSM J5328, a carapace lacking most of the carapacial rim
"Pleurosternon vansittarti n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii3 Owen 1842 turtle CAMSM J5327 (holotype), a nearly complete carapace
"Pleurosternon sedgwicki n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii3 Owen 1842 turtle CAMSM J5326 (holotype), a complete carapace
"Megasternon koenigii n. gen. n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii1 Owen 1842 turtle NHMUK R911 (holotype), a plastron
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