Also known as BMNH
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 9.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Fox; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• collected by Fox, sold to BMNH 1882
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1887. On a sacrum, apparently indicating a new type of bird, Ornithodesmus cluniculus, Seeley, from the Wealden of Brook. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:206-211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48853: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ornithodesmus latidens n. sp." = Istiodactylus latidens5 Seeley 1901 pterosaur BMNH R176 (holotype), part of a poorly preserved skeleton. CAMMZ T706, partial skull (may be from same individual as the holotype)
Ornithodesmus cluniculus n. sp. Seeley 1887 pterosaur BMNH R187 (holotype), poorly preserved sacrum of six vertebrae
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Lithostrotia indet.1 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod NHMUK R5333 (two caudal vertebrae and the posterior condyle of a third caudal vertebra in articulation)
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