Also known as Langton Matravers

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian to Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Originally reported as Tithonian, 1 m approx. below layer containing multituberculates (Sunnydown Farm Quarry, clay). Sigogneau-Russel and Ensom, 1998 consider it to be Early Cretaceous, and elevate the Purebeck Limestone to a group, and the Lulworth to a Formation. Formation now considered Berriasian (MTC). Correlated to DB 98-100.

•Cherty Freshwater Mbr now = top of Worbarrow Tour Mbr.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; cherty/siliceous limestone and argillaceous, carbonaceous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: P. C. Ensom. 1988. Excavations at Sunnydown Farm, Langton Matravers, Dorset: amphibians discovered in the Purbeck Limestone Formation. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 109:148-150 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28995: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.03.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson and John Alroy

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