East Cliff, Hastings (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashdown Formation (Wealden Group), Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• "Wealden" from below the Wadhurst

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Webster, E. Tagart, Beckles in pre-1816

Primary reference: A. Taylor. 1862. On the footprint of an Iguanodon, lately found at Hastings. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 18:247-253 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83125: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
? Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
"saurian bones", "probably bones of that dinosaur"