Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 1.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cambridge Greensand Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; glauconitic, silty marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mr A. F. Griffith in the 1880s
Primary reference: P. M. Barrett and S. E. Evans. 2002. A reassessment of the Early Cretaceous reptile 'Patricosaurus merocratus' Seeley from the Cambridge Greensand, Cambridgeshire, UK. Cretaceous Research 23:231-240 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138318: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 12.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur SMC B58402 (syntype), a sacral vertebra (nomen dubium of Patricosaurus merocratus)
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Patricosaurus merocratus n. gen. n. sp.
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