Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1875. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part II. (Genera Bothriospondylus, Cetiosaurus, Omosaurus). 29:15-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 157614: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Bothriospondylus magnus n. sp." = Ornithopsis hulkei, Chondrosteosaurus gigas n. gen. n. sp.
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