Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° 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)
• "Wealden Beds", below the "Wealden Shales" (Vectis Fm.), so inferred to be Wessex Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by S. H. Beckles in 1855-1861
Collection methods: salvage, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Some specimens from a rock in situ, others in loose rocks along shore
Primary reference: S. H. Beckles. 1862. On some natural casts of reptilian footprints in the Wealden beds of the Isle of Wight and of Swanage. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 18:443-447 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 72289: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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