Also known as Iguanodon prestwichii type, Cumnor Hurst
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 8.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Auloacostephanus pseudomutabilis zone, Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• described as "upper Lower Kimmeridgian" by Galton & Powell; eudoxus Zone; bed d = "Iguanodon-bed", thickness to middle of bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and white, yellow, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Prestwich in 1879-1880
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1879. On the discovery of a species of Iguanodon in the Kimmeridge Clay near Oxford; and a notice of a very fossiliferous band of the Shotover Sands. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 2 6(5):193-195 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26790: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Iguanodon prestwichii n. sp." = Cumnoria prestwichii1
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Lingulata | |
Lingula ovalis2 Sowerby 1813 |