Durlston Bay (general) [Beckles Collection] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• "Middle Purbeck Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Beckles; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Lydekker and G. A. Boulenger. 1887. Notes on Chelonia from the Purbeck, Wealden and London-Clay. Geological Magazine 4:270-275 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92915: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2009, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
"Platychelys anglica n. sp." = Helochelydra anglica2
"Platychelys anglica n. sp." = Helochelydra anglica2 Lydekker 1889 turtle
BMNH 48349, carapace, plastron and part of the pelvic girdle; BMNH 48352 (two costal bones and partial scapulocoracoid) may be part of the same individual
 Pterosauria -
Pterodactyloidea indet.1 Plieninger 1901 pterosaur
BMNH 48387, collection of phalangeal fragments. BMNH 48380, fourth metacarpal
 Pterosauria - Ctenochasmatidae
Ctenochasmatidae indet.1 ctenochasmatid
BMNH 48387, cervical vertebra