Also known as Enaliornis type
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Stoliczkaia dispar ammonoid zone, Gault Formation (Selborne Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• specimens were found in the lower Cenomanian Cambridge Greensand but "probably all derive [by reworking] from the upper Gault (Stoliczkaia dispar zone, upper Albian, Lower Cretaceous)" (Elzanowski and Galton 1991)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by R. Owen, L. Barrett; reposited in the BMNH, SM
• type of E. barretti is in the BM and type of E. sedgwick is in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
Primary reference: E. Van Den Broeck. 1900. Les dépôts à Iguanodons de Bernissart et leur transfert dans l’étage Purbeckien ou Aquilonien du Jurassique supérieur. Exposé comprenant une revue de la faune des vertébrés du Purbeckien et du Wealdien dans le sud-est de l’Angleterre [The Iguanodon deposits of Bernissart and their transfer to the Purbeckian or Aquilonian stage of the Upper Jurassic. Presentation including a review of the vertebrate fauna of the Purbeckian and Wealden of southeast England ]. Mémoires de la Société Belge de Géologie de Paléontologie et d’Hydrologie 14:39-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85289: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.12.2008
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Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Pelagornis barretti n. sp." = Enaliornis barretti, Enaliornis sedgwicki n. sp.
"Pelagornis barretti n. sp." = Enaliornis barretti Seeley 1876 bird
Enaliornis sedgwicki n. sp. Seeley 1869 bird |