Reach, Cambridge (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Greensand Formation (Selborne Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Upper Gault Clay or Upper Greensand

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by H. Keeping in 1872

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1879. On the Dinosauria of the Cambridge Greensand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35:591-636 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59408: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2006, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
"oysters"
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Anoplosaurus curtonotus n. gen. n. sp.
Anoplosaurus curtonotus n. gen. n. sp. Seeley 1879 ankylosaur
SMC B55731, a partial right scapula; SMC B55670, partial left dentary; SMC B55671-55675, five cervical centra; SMC B55676--55688, thirteen dorsal centra; SMC B55689-55694, isolated neural arches; SMC B55695-55696, dorsal ribs; SMC B55697- 55709, rib fragments; SMC B55710-55715, six unfused sacral centra; SMC B557 16--55720, sacral ribs; SMC B55721- 55728, eight caudal centra ; SMC B55729- 55730, coracoids; SMC B55732, fragmentary right humerus ; SMC B55733, ?metacarpal; SMC B55734-55735 fragmentary left femur ; SMC B55736--55737, fragmentary left tibia; SMC B55738- 55741 , ?metatarsals ; SMC B55742, phalanx
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus pachyomus n. sp. Owen 1840 plesiosaur
Plesiosaurus bernardi Owen 1850 plesiosaur
several vertebrae, plate 4, figs 1-4