Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 9.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wealden Group, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• "This material cannot be satisfactorily assigned to a Wealden Group horizon" (Sweetman & Martill 2010)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Fox; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: W. Fox. 1866. [Another new Wealden saurian]. The Athenaeum 2014:740 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92917: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2009, edited by Roger Benson, Bethany Allen and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tretosternon punctatum4 Owen 1842 turtle BMNH R171x (left epiplastral), R171y (left hypoplastral) (Fox Collection)
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Helochelydra nopcsai n. gen. n. sp.1
Helochelydra nopcsai n. gen. n. sp.1 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1999 turtle BMNH R171 (Fox Collection); Locality given as ‘Wealden of the Isle of Wight’ (Lydekker 1889, p. 141), but Lydekker & Boulenger (1887, p. 273) gave as 'Wealden of Brook, Isle of Wight'; Milner (2011) gave locality as ' Brighstone Bay, Isle of Wight'
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"Calamospondylus foxi n. gen. n. sp." = Calamosaurus foxi3, "Thecospondylus daviesi n. gen. n. sp." = Thecocoelurus daviesi6, Calamospondylus oweni n. gen. n. sp.
"Thecospondylus daviesi n. gen. n. sp." = Thecocoelurus daviesi6 Seeley 1888 ornithomimosaur BMNH R181
Calamospondylus oweni n. gen. n. sp. Fox 1866 coelurosaur | |
"Poikilopleuron pusillus n. sp." = Aristosuchus pusillus5
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