Sandown Bay ornithopod (BMNH) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wealden Group, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Saul in the 1860s; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52645: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881 ornithopod
BMNH 37688