Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 8.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Forest Marble Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1870s; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1875. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part II. (Genera Bothriospondylus, Cetiosaurus, Omosaurus). 29:15-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52506: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Bothriospondylus robustus n. sp.
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