Also known as Enaliornis type

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Stoliczkaia dispar ammonoid zone, Gault Formation (Selborne Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• specimens were found in the lower Cenomanian Cambridge Greensand but "probably all derive [by reworking] from the upper Gault (Stoliczkaia dispar zone, upper Albian, Lower Cretaceous)" (Elzanowski and Galton 1991)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by R. Owen, L. Barrett; reposited in the BMNH, SM

• type of E. barretti is in the BM and type of E. sedgwick is in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

Primary reference: E. Van Den Broeck. 1900. Les dépôts à Iguanodons de Bernissart et leur transfert dans l’étage Purbeckien ou Aquilonien du Jurassique supérieur. Exposé comprenant une revue de la faune des vertébrés du Purbeckien et du Wealdien dans le sud-est de l’Angleterre [The Iguanodon deposits of Bernissart and their transfer to the Purbeckian or Aquilonian stage of the Upper Jurassic. Presentation including a review of the vertebrate fauna of the Purbeckian and Wealden of southeast England ]. Mémoires de la Société Belge de Géologie de Paléontologie et d’Hydrologie 14:39-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85289: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.12.2008

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