Feather Bed, Durlston Bay (DB 108) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S. H. Beckles in the 1800s; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: S. E. Evans and B. Searle. 2002. Lepidosaurian reptiles from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England. In A. R. Milner, D. J. Batten (eds.), Life and Environments in Purbeck Times. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:145-149 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118383: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 13.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Paramacellodidae
Saurillus obtusus n. gen. n. sp.
Saurillus obtusus n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1855 squamates
lost holotype dentary