Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian to Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Horizons correlate to DB 97 and DB 102-110. Cherty Freshwater Mbr = top of Worbarrow Tout Mbr.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shelly/skeletal, calcareous claystone and unlithified, carbonaceous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: P. C. Ensom. 2002. Reptile eggshell, tiny vertebrate remains and globular calcified cartilage from the Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:221-239 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55497: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 27.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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