Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)
• "from a plant debris bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; concretionary, pyritic, sideritic, gray claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: concretion, replaced with pyrite
Collected by Leng in 1997
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. Hutt, D. Naish, D. M. Martill, M. J. Barker, and P. Newbery. 2001. A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England. Cretaceous Research 22:227-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55518: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Reptilia | |
Eotyrannus lengi n. gen. n. sp.
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