Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• from the "Hypsilophodon Bed", ca. 2.5 m below top of Wessex Formation (= Wealden Marls) [not from Vectis Fm.]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, carbonaceous marl and brown, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by J. S. Bowerbank, G. A. Mantell, W. Fox in 1849, 1868; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• single block broken in two, found by workmen, and sent to different collectors

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1855. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part II. Dinosauria (Iguanodon). [Wealden]. The Palaeontographical Society, London 1854:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26791: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.11.2002, edited by Kaitlin Maguire and Richard Butler

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