Weymouth sauropod (3) (BMNH) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell in 1878; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96469: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
BMNH 49165