Also known as Craterosaurus type

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 10.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Potton Nodule Bed Member (Woburn Sand Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• Potton Sands = Woburn Sands; possibly reworked. "it may be as new as the upper part of the Lower Greensand" (Seeley, 1874).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, phosphatic, brown sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1874. On the base of a large lacertian cranium from the Potton Sands, presumably dinosaurian. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:690-692 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36581: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2004

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