Eotyrannus type, SW Isle of Wight (PROXY) (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

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
 Theropoda -
Eotyrannus lengi n. gen. n. sp.
Eotyrannus lengi n. gen. n. sp. Hutt et al. 2001 coelurosaur
MIWG 1997.550
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Valdosaurus sp. Galton 1977 ornithopod
MIWG 1997.885