Foreshore, Chilton Chine (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

• "Waterworn nodule"

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur
IWCMS 1995.629, proximal wing phalanx; IWCMS 1995.630, distal wing phalanx