low-water mark, near Hastings: Late/Upper Berriasian - Valanginian, United Kingdom
collected by S. H. Beckles 1852

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Geology
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Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Pelorosaurus becklesii n. sp. Mantell 1852
1 individual
recombined as Haestasaurus becklesii
NHMUK R1870 - type (humerus, radius and ulna); R1868 (associated skin impression)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:East Sussex
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 0.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.8° North, 10.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Berriasian - Late/Upper Barremian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Berriasian - Valanginian
Age range of interval:140.60000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wealden Formation:Hastings Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: An undetermined horizon within the Hastings Beds. 'Hastings Beds' now a subgroup that includes the Ashdown Formation, the Wadhurst Clay Formation and the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,soft parts
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:1 individuals
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:S. H. Beckles Collection dates:1852
Collection method comments: represents the first discovery of dinosaur skin impressions
Metadata
Also known as:Pelorosaurus becklesii type
Database number:24905
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-08-22 10:55:39 Last modified:2023-07-19 11:07:44
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-22 10:55:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
44406. G. A. Mantell. 1852. On the structure of the Iguanodon, and on the fauna and flora of the Wealden Formation. Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution 1:141-146 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17771ETE S. A. Czerkas. 1995. The history and interpretations of sauropod skin impressions. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:173-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
6981 R. W. Hooley. 1917. On the integument of Iguanodon bernissartensis, Boulenger, and of Morosaurus becklesii, Mantell. Geological Magazine, series 6 4:148-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14170ETE R. Lydekker. 1893. On a sauropodous dinosaurian vertebra from the Wealden of Hastings. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 49:276-280 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14171ETE O. C. Marsh. 1889. Comparison of the principal forms of the Dinosauria of Europe and America. The American Journal of Science, series 3 37:323-331 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69418 F. A. Quenstedt. 1856. Sonst und Jetzt. Populäre Vorträge über Geologie [Other and Now. Popular Lectures on Geology] viii-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55439 P. Upchurch, P. D. Mannion, and M. P. Taylor. 2015. The anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of “Pelorosaurus“ becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England. PLoS ONE 10(6):e0125819:1-51 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
30971ETE A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London 1-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]