Also known as Ceteosaurus humero-cristatus type
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rasenia cymodoce ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• ?mutabilis Zone or cymodoce zone; "Gigantosaurus" materials from the "gritty clay bed" = Wyke Siltstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. I. Smith, R. Damon in 1873; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: J. W. Hulke. 1874. Note on a very large saurian limb-bone adapted for progression upon land, from the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth, Dorset. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:16-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26795: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.11.2002, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ostrea deltoidea" = Deltoideum (Deltoideum) delta2
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Pelobatochelys blakii n. sp.1
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"Cetiosaurus humerocristatus n. sp." = Duriatitan humerocristatus Lydekker 1888 sauropod "Ceteosaurus humero-cristatus"; BMNH 44635
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