Bath area theropod (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Great Oolite Group, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• described as the "Bath oolite"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. A. Mantell in the 1820s

Primary reference: W. Buckland. 1824. Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 1:390-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59362: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
vertebra