Sandown Bay (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.2° 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)

• originally described as "Hastings Sands", but these beds do not outcrop on the Isle of Wight; now considered Wealden Marls = Wessex Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. E. Lee in the 1840s

• specimens lost "in a hackney coach"

Primary reference: J. E. Lee. 1843. Notice of saurian dermal plates from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11:5-7 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59353: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Polacanthus sp. Fox 1866 ankylosaur
dermal plate fragments