Swanage (general) (BMNH) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cunningham in the 1870s; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. B. Norman and P. M. Barrett. 2002. Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:161-189 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52301: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.08.2005, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Euornithopoda indet.2 Sereno 1986 ornithopod
BMNH 46785
Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Aspidorhynchus fisheri1 Egerton 1854
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotus minor3 Agassiz 1833 gar
BMNH 36080, 36081, 46419, 36084, 40655, 46411
 Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae
Histionotus angularis1 Egerton 1854
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes -
Asteracanthus verrucosus n. sp.1 Egerton 1854 elasmobranch
Asteracanthus semiverrucosus n. sp.1 Egerton 1854 elasmobranch