Also known as Iguanodon Quarry, Rock Hill
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 11.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hythe Formation (Lower Greensand Group), Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)
• also called "Shanklin-sand" and "Kentish rag", perhaps in the bowerbanki Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by W. H. Bensted in 1834; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• listed as Mr. Bensted by Buckland and Mr Prinsted and Mr Binsted by Mantell
Primary reference: G. A. Mantell. 1834. Discovery of the bones of the Iguanodon in a quarry of Kentish Rag (a limestone belonging to the lower greensand formation) near Maidstone, Kent. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 17(33):200-201 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52568: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.08.2005, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
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Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Synechodus tenuis n. sp.1
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Reptilia | |
Protemys serrata n. gen. n. sp.4
Protemys serrata n. gen. n. sp.4 Owen 1849 turtle Mr Bensted, the owner of the quarry, had the good fortune to discover the dislocated remains of the carapace and plastron of a chelonian reptile
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"Mantellodon carpenteri n. gen. n. sp." = Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis3
"Mantellodon carpenteri n. gen. n. sp." = Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis3 Hooley 1925 ornithopod "now placed in the splendid museum of Mr. Mantell at Brighton"
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Plesiosaurus latispinus n. sp.5 Owen 1854 plesiosaur about a dozen vertebrae, with ribs, scapulae, portions of the coracoid bones, and ilium, and a few other parts of the skeleton
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