Durlston Bay (DB132/133) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stair Hole Member (Durlston Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• from levels DB132/133 and above. Intermarine Mbr now = Stair Hole Mbr

•Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; limestone

• The Purbeck Limestone Group was deposited in shallow brackish and freshwater conditions which were occasionally inundated by a marine water mass.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Ensom

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. C. Ensom. 1995. Dinosaur footprint records for the Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, since 1981. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 116:151-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94233: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
tridactyl tracks