Chilton Chine (BMNH) (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red, yellow sandstone

• "light yellow sandstone with dark reddish brown streaks"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hooley in 1916; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. M. Galton. 1976. The dinosaur Vectisaurus valdensis (Ornithischia: Iguanodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):976-984 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45918: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Proplanicoxa galtoni n. gen. n. sp.
Proplanicoxa galtoni n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter and Ishida 2010 ornithopod
BMNH R8649