Shornden Quarry (BMNH) (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Weald Clay Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1880s; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52657: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
BMNH R.1115, tibia