Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 10.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wadhurst Clay Formation (Wealden Group), Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• The Wadhurst Clay Formation of the Hastings Beds Subgroup has an ages of Lower Valanginian according to Radley (2006; vide Allen & Wimbledon 1991)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dawson; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127529: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 16.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Cimoliosaurus valdensis n. sp." = Hastanectes valdensis
"Cimoliosaurus valdensis n. sp." = Hastanectes valdensis Lydekker 1889 plesiosaur BMNH R609 (holotype partial skeleton)
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Hylaeochelys belli Mantell 1844 turtle |