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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"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
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Pterodactyloidea indet.1 Plieninger 1901 pterosaur BMNH 48387, collection of phalangeal fragments. BMNH 48380, fourth metacarpal
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