Cuckfield Quarry, Tilgate (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Valanginian to Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 130.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone

• "fawn-coloured sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Kingdon, G. A. Mantell in 1825; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. A. Mantell. 1851. Petrifactions and Their Teachings; or, a Hand-Book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum xi-496 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52672: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
"Cetiosaurus conybeari n. sp." = Pelorosaurus conybeari1, Cetiosaurus brevis n. sp.2
"Cetiosaurus conybeari n. sp." = Pelorosaurus conybeari1 Melville 1849 sauropod
BMNH 28626, R humerus
Cetiosaurus brevis n. sp.2 Owen 1842 sauropod
BMNH 2544-2550, caudal vertebrae