Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wadhurst Clay Formation (Hastings Group), Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Wadhurst CLay (Lydekker 1889); Hastings Sub-Group, Early Cretaceous, upper Berriasian to Valanginian (Joyce & Chapman 2011)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. G. Joyce and S. D. Chapman. 2011. The skull of the solemydid turtle Helochelydra nopcsai from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight (UK) and a review of Solemydidae. Special Papers in Palaeontology 86:75-97 [R. Benson/R. Benson/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123855: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.02.2012