Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 8.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aulacostephanus eudoxus ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• described as "upper Lower Kimmeridgian" by Galton & Powell; eudoxus Zone; bed e, thickness to middle of bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Prestwich in 1879-1880
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1880. Note on the occurrence of a new species of Iguanodon in a brick-pit of the Kimmeridge Clay at Cumnor Hurst, three miles W.S.W. of Oxford. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 36:430-432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70996: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2007, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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