Also known as Durdleston Bay, Echinodon type

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• "... the sphenodontian dentary was found in a small boulder on the beach at Durlston Bay. Unfortunately, the specimen was not found in situ, and it is not clear whether the boulder came from the beach outcrop or from inland quarry material dumped on the beach during coastal protection work. Ostracod analysis... suggests that the rock came from the upper part of the Cherty Freshwater Limestone series, 1-2m below the Cinder Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S. Beckles in the 1860s; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: S. E. Evans and N. C. Fraser. 1992. A sphenodontid jaw (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History Society 1992:199-200 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176070: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 26.01.2016

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