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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Limestone Group, Berriasian (145.5 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Charles Willcox, Esq., M.R.C.S in 1853; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• DORCM, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, UK

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1853. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations. Part 1, Chelonia. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 7(25):1-12 [R. Benson/R. Benson] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127481: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.05.2012