Whale Chine (BMNH) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 1.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ferruginous Sands Formation (Lower Greensand Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Blows in the 1980s; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. T. Blows. 1987. The armoured dinosaur Polacanthus foxi from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontology 30(3):557-580 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53952: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Polacanthus foxii Grabau 1921 ankylosaur
BMNH R.9950 (or 9905)