Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 10.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Weald Clay Formation (Wealden Group), Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wyley in 1964; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: C. J. O. Harrison and C. A. Walker. 1973. Wyleyia: a new bird humerus from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Palaeontology 16(4):721-728 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52962: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Wyleyia valdensis n. gen. n. sp.
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