Cambridge area (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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
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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Platypterygiinae indet. Arkhangelsky 2001 ichthyosaur
Pervushovisaurus campylodon Carter 1846 ichthyosaur