Wessex pterosaur humerus (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 9.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Green

• Specimen is kept in private collection; plaster replicas have been deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, Staatlisches Museum fuer Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, and Dinosaur Isle Museum, Sandown, Isle of Wight (BMNH R 16497, SMNK PAL 9876, and IWCMS.2008.201, respectively)

Primary reference: M. P. Witton, D. M. Martill, and M. Green. 2009. On pterodactyloid diversity in the British Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) and a reappraisal of ‘‘Palaeornis’’ cliftii Mantell, 1844. Cretaceous Research 30:676-686 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90213: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Neoazhdarchia indet. Unwin 2003 pterosaur
Isolated but complete left humerus