Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grinstead Clay Member (Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• 'Hastings Beds' now a subgroup that includes the Ashdown Formation, the Wadhurst Clay Formation and the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation. Bed is the "Tilgate Grit."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Mantell & P. Fuller in 1820-1822, 1832-1850; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Hylaeosaurus type found by found by Peter Fuller of Lewes. Sauropod humerus discovered in 1847 by Mr. Peter Fuller of Lewes; caudals found some years before by Mantell "collected from the same quarry" (ref 57075).

Primary reference: G. A. Mantell. 1822. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex 1-327 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52258: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.08.2005

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