Unknown Lepidosaur locality (Patricosaurus type) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
SMC B58402 (syntype), a sacral vertebra (nomen dubium of Patricosaurus merocratus)
 Eosuchia -
Patricosaurus merocratus n. gen. n. sp.
Patricosaurus merocratus n. gen. n. sp. Seeley 1887 lepidosaur
SMC B58401 (syntype)