Beneath the concrete floor of British Rail Engineering, Swindon (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1975; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: L. B. Halstead. 1989. Plesiosaur locomotion. Journal of the Geological Society 146(1):37-40 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138008: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 02.01.2013
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Pliosaurus brachyspondylus Owen 1840 plesiosaur BMNH R8928, a complete, but disarticulated, skeleton
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