Verne, Isle of Portland (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)

When: Portland Oolite Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in <1860

Collection methods: quarrying

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 141824: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauroidea indet. Welles 1943 plesiosaur
'Plesiosaurian remains' first reported by Damon (1860)