Keymer Tile Works, sample 5 (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Weald Clay Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• lower Weald Clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; brown, green, red claystone

• "red-brown/olive mottled clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. C. Milner and S. E. Evans. 1998. First report of amphibians and lizards from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) in England. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:173-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62637: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Selachii -
Amphibia
 Caudata -
Caudata indet. salamander
 Salientia -
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
cf. Tretosternon sp. Owen 1842 turtle
"? cf. Tretosternon"
 Loricata -
cf. Bernissartia sp. Dollo 1883 crocodilian
"? cf. Bernissartia"
 Squamata -
 Squamata - Dorsetisauridae
Dorsetisaurus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates
 Squamata -
Lacertilia indet. lizard
2 types
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish