Also known as Langton Matravers, tracksite
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• Uppermost Lulworth Beds of Casey 1963, lying just below the Cinder Member, the base of which currently marks the Jr/K boundary in Southern England. Section originally published by Ensom 1985. Fossils come from 2.2 m below the Cinder Member. Equivalent to DB103 and WB117 (listed as WB112 in error).
•Cherty Freshwater Mbr = top of Worbarrow Tout Mbr
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; burrowed, shelly/skeletal, cherty/siliceous, carbonaceous wackestone and argillaceous, calcareous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by P. Ensom
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• 19 footprints (9 forelimb, 10 hindlimb)
Primary reference: P. C. Ensom. 1987. A remarkable new vertebrate site in the Purbeck Limestone Formation on the Isle of Purbeck. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 108:205-206 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28994: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.03.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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cf. Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944 |