Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Valanginian to Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 130.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by G. Mantell in the 1820s; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73272: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Megalosaurus oweni n. sp." = Valdoraptor oweni3
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"Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus1
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Pterosauria indet.2 Kaup 1834 pterosaur BMNH 2458, 2470, shafts of long-bones, BMNH 2455, three long-bones
Palaeornis cliftii n. sp.4 Mantell 1844 pterosaur BMNH 2353 and 2353a; proximal and distal components of an almost complete left humerus
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