Also known as Portland Island
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• 'Portland Oolite'
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Bright in < 1874; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical
• presented to BM(NH) in 1874
Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia 1-239 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127647: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.05.2012
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Taxonomic list
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"Pleurosternum portlandicum n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii
"Pleurosternum portlandicum n. sp." = Pleurosternon bullockii Owen 1842 turtle BMNH 44807 (holotype shell in ventral view)
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