Beagle Pit, Hartwell (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Bugle Pit

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 8.8° 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: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Alstone in 1893-1894; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1893. On two dinosaurian teeth from Aylesbury. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 49:566-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52674: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.08.2005, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines -
Cryptodira indet.1
Cryptodira indet.1 Cope 1868 turtle
BUCCM Lee Coll. 3948
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia2
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia2 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp.1
Iguanodon sp.1 Mantell 1825 ornithopod
BUCCM 467.22
 Theropoda -
cf. Allosauroidea indet.4
cf. Allosauroidea indet.4 Currie and Zhao 1994 allosauroid
BMNH R2566, R2567, R2821 teeth
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet.3, "Pelorosaurus humerocristatus" = Duriatitan humerocristatus
? Sauropoda indet.3 sauropod
BUCCM 9.43
"Pelorosaurus humerocristatus" = Duriatitan humerocristatus Lydekker 1888 sauropod
teeth
 Sauria -
Sauria indet.2
Sauria indet.2 diapsid
tooth, BCM
1Benton and Spencer 1995; 2Delair 1993; 3Maidment et al. 2008; 4Milner 2002