Paine's Quarry, Herston (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Durlston Formation (Purbeck Group), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• lower Durlston beds

•Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; limestone

• intertidal to supratidal flats, on the shores of a freshwater to brackish lagoon

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by V. Copp in 1958

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected 1958, discovered by Vera E. Copp in the garden of Periwinkle Cottage, Cotness, near Wareham

Primary reference: W. A. S. Sarjeant, J. B. Delair, and M. G. Lockley. 1998. The footprints of Iguanodon: a history and taxonomic study. Ichnos 6(3):183-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204858: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Iguanodontipus burreyi n. gen. n. sp.
Iguanodontipus burreyi n. gen. n. sp. Sarjeant et al. 1998 ornithopod
BNSS 33793a, b, c