Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Stair Hole Member (Durlston Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• in the "pink bed" of the Roach Stone = bed 50d of Damon's Purbeck strata, which probably = Durlston Fm., Intermarine Mb.
•Durlston Formation is likely upper Berriasian in age based on magnetostratigraphy (Ogg et al. 1994; Ogg et al. 2008) and correlates to other upper Berriasian assemblages in Europe (e.g. Wimbledon and Hunt 1993).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by E. Oppé, J. Delair in 1967
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• collected by Royal Scottish Museum
Primary reference: J. B. Delair and A. B. Lander. 1973. A short history of the discovery of reptilian footprints in the Purbeck Beds of Dorset, with notes on their stratigraphical distribution. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 94:17-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 80383: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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