Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 8.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Portland Stone Formation (Portland Group), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• "rubble" bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1841. Description of a portion of the skeleton of the Cetiosaurus, a gigantic extinct saurian reptile occurring in the Oolitic formations of different portions of England. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3, part 2(80):457-462 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 53523: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Cetiosaurus longus n. sp.
Cetiosaurus longus n. sp. Owen 1842 sauropod |