Also known as Petersborough

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Lower Oxford Clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; concretionary, shelly/skeletal, green claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by P. Schultz & R. Clements in 1972; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149253: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.07.2013

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