Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in <1822
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: W. D. Conybeare. 1822. Additional notices on the fossil genera Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2 1:103-123 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119666: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 30.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Plesiosaurus recentior n. sp." = Pliosaurus brachyspondylus1 Owen 1840 plesiosaur BRSMG vertebrae (destroyed)
Pliosaurus gamma n. sp.2 Phillips 1871 plesiosaur two cervical centra, including OUMNH J.10455 (lectotype cervical vertebra) retained in Pliosaurus gamma by Tarlo (1960)
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