Also known as Cryptosaurus/Cryptodraco type

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Decipia decipiens ammonoid zone, Ampthill Clay Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• also referred to Oxford Clay; but probably from the ?Decipia decipiens Zone of the Ampthill Clay, middle Upper Oxfordian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Ewbank in 1869

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by L. Ewbank from a brick pit, now covered

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1875. On the femur of Cryptosaurus eumerus, Seeley, a dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of Great Gransden. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 319:149-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36582: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2004, edited by Roger Benson

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