Brook (Fox collection) [PROXY] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
"Ornithodesmus latidens n. sp." = Istiodactylus latidens5, Ornithodesmus cluniculus n. sp.
"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
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.3 dinosaur
BMNH R1656, horn-like bone
 Saurischia -
"Titanosaurus valdensis n. sp." = Iuticosaurus valdensis2, Lithostrotia indet.1
"Titanosaurus valdensis n. sp." = Iuticosaurus valdensis2 Huene 1929 sauropod
BMNH R.151, R.146a
Lithostrotia indet.1 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod
NHMUK R5333 (two caudal vertebrae and the posterior condyle of a third caudal vertebra in articulation)
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet.4 Huene 1914 coelurosaur
BMNH R186