Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 9.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Wessex Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)
• Matrix suggests that specimen is from the lower of the "plant debris beds" exposed at this locality
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Michael and Malcolm Green
• IWCMS: Museum of the Isle of Wight Geology
Primary reference: D. M. Martill, E. Frey, M. Green and M. E. Green. 1996. Giant pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1996:672-683 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90308: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur IWCMS 1995.629, proximal wing phalanx; IWCMS 1995.630, distal wing phalanx
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