Also known as Dorsetochelys delairi type locality

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• "Middle Purbeck Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sir Charles RIchardson in 1908; reposited in the BMNH

• Dorset County Museum (DORCM) collection

Primary reference: J. Evans and T. S. Kemp. 1976. A new turtle skull from the Purbeckian of England and a note on the early dichotomies of cryptodire turtles. Palaeontology 19(2):317-324 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129261: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.06.2012

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