Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 3.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 72.1 Ma)

• "Upper Chalk" an outdated term that refers to Turonian-Campanian levels according to the BGS lexicon of named rock units, now the White Chalk Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1860; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Purchased 1860

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 142109: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 05.04.2013

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