Fossil specimen : SM B 53455 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Reptilia Order Dinosauria |
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| Fossil Name | Sphenospondylus gracilis Lydekker |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Sphenospondylus gracilis Lydekker – See Woods, H. (1891) Sphenospondylus gracilis Lydekker – See Lydekker, R. (1888b): Holotype Sphenospondylus – See Seeley, H.G. (1883): Undifferentiated Type |
| Registration No. | B 53455 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Brook, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Wealden Bed |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Barremian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Berriasian Age (Cretaceous Period) (126.3 – 145 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Lydekker, R. 1888 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xliv p.47 Seeley, H.G. 1869 a. Index to the fossil remains of aves, ornithosauria and reptilia from the secondary system of strata p.85 Seeley, H.G. 1883. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxix p.55 Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 p.177 |
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