Weymouth ankylosaur (BMNH) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mupe Member (Lulworth Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• originally "upper Portlandian" (U. Jurassic); from "Dirt-Bed" near base of Lulworth

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Manterfield in 1970; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. M. Galton. 1983. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Europe. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 182(1-3):1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75779: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet. ankylosaur
BMNH R8929, caudal vertebra