Green End, Kempston, near Bedford (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• Oxford Clay Formation (likely Peterborough Member)

Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. W. Crick, Esq. in 1888; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Presented by F. W. Crick, Esq., 1888

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. On the remains and affinities of five genera of Mesozoic reptiles. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 45:41-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133586: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 17.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Peloneustes philarchus Seeley 1869 plesiosaur
BMNH R1253, skeleton