Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 4.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lias Group, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 183.0 Ma)
• 'Lias'
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• CAMSM, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
Primary reference: J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140697: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plesiosaurus aff. subtrigonus Owen 1840 plesiosaur Cervical vertebra first reported by Owen (1839, pp. 77-78)
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