Yaverland Battery, Sandown (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Yaverlandia type site

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.3° 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)

• from Upper Silty Bed, Wealden Marls, probably = Bed 30

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lenticular, bioturbated, gray siltstone and gray, calcareous marl

• "Silt, pale greenish-gray ; hard and vesicular inplaces, with one or more bands of rolled convretions, much pyritized carbonized wood". Above this is "marl, grey with coloured mottlings and irregular bands of large calcareous nodules in upper part"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by F. M. G. Abell in 1923

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. F. Jackson. 1931. A catalogue of Cretaceous fossils in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, the Free Library, Sandown. Part II: Lower Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society 2(1):45-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47190: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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cf. Proodon sp.
cf. Proodon sp.
"may be part of...Vectisaurus"; presumed lapsus calami for Troodon
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Yaverlandia bitholus n. gen. n. sp.
Yaverlandia bitholus n. gen. n. sp. Galton 1971 theropod
"may be part of...Vectisaurus"; presumed lapsus calami for Troodon