Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Glauconitic Marl Member (West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "lower part of the Chalk Marl", ca. 8 ft. above the Greensand. "the lower part of the Grey Chalk series. (the Chalk Marl with Brachiolithes)". PJW: This is now the Glauconitic Marl

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Griffiths

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: T. H. Huxley. 1867. On Acanthopholis horridus, a new reptile from the Chalk-marl. Geological Magazine 4:65-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49496: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.04.2005, edited by Pete Wagner

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