tracksite, shore between Brook and Brixton (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Brighstone

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• "Wealden Beds", below the "Wealden Shales" (Vectis Fm.), so inferred to be Wessex Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and sandstone

• "a sandstone band" in the "red and variegated clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by S. H. Beckles in 1855-1861

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Some specimens from a rock in situ, others in loose rocks along shore

Primary reference: S. H. Beckles. 1862. On some natural casts of reptilian footprints in the Wealden beds of the Isle of Wight and of Swanage. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 18:443-447 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 72290: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp.
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
small tridactyl trackway