Swanage Bay tracksite (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• two bands

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone

• :two bands of sand-rock, usually about 1 foot thick, separated by about 20 feet of clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by S. H. Beckles in 1855-1861

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 72291: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
tridactyl tracks