Also known as Brighstone

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wealden Group, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, blue claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Wilkins; reposited in the BMNH

• privately collected and donated to museum "by a fisherman since dead", then obtained by Dr. Wilkins, of Newport

Primary reference: J. W. Hulke. 1874. Note on a reptilian tibia and humerus (probably of Hylaeosaurus) from the Wealden Formation in the Isle of Wight. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:516-520 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26781: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.10.2002

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