Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oxford Clay Formation (Ancholme Group), Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical,
• DORCM, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Primary reference: J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140706: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiosaurus planispondylus n. sp.
Plesiosaurus planispondylus n. sp. Damon 1860 plesiosaur DORCM G.121, a phalanx, and the only extant specimen fromt he type series of Plesiosaurus planispondylus
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