Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed L5; "Plant debris bed L5 lies close to the base of the exposed Wessex Formation on the Island, which is thought to be earliest Barremian in age (Lockwood et al., 2021)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Cooper, D. Richards, G. Leng, L. Spearpoint in 1990s, 1993–1994

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• portion of a skull

Primary reference: D. B. Norman and T. Faiers. 1996. On the first partial skull of an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Geological Magazine 133(3):229-310 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53891: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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