Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 2.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cambridge Greensand Member (West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• lower Cenomanian, but includes upper Albian material reworked from the Gault Formation
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: salvage
• CAMSM: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
Primary reference: V. Fischer. 2016. Taxonomy of Platypterygius campylodon and the diversity of the last ichthyosaurs. PeerJ 4:e2604 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 214383: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.09.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Platypterygiinae indet. Arkhangelsky 2001 ichthyosaur
Pervushovisaurus campylodon Carter 1846 ichthyosaur |