Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Valanginian to Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 130.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; burrowed, fine-grained, pyritic, argillaceous sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by D. Tickner, E. Withey & G. Wise in 1980

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• discovered by David Tickner and Ernest Withey; one specimen collected by Gerry Wise and shown at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

Primary reference: J. B. Delair and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1985. History and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles: supplement 1973–1983. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 49:123-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52661: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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