Also known as South Coast of the Isle of Wight

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vectis Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• The authors refer to the "Wealden Beds", but the enterer questions whether these fossils are of the Vectis Formation of the Wealden Group..?

•"At Barnes High the exposure is on average 10 to 15 metres thick; it is overlain by Wealden shales and underlain by massive white and yellow sandstones."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; red, argillaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Vectisuchus skeleton was complete (preserved belly-down "with skull forced up and back"), but posterior half was lost during excavation.

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and S. Hutt. 1980. Vectisuchus leptognathus, n. g. n. sp., a slender-snouted goniopholid crocodilian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 7:385-390 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13267: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 08.02.2002, edited by Richard Butler

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