Fossil specimen : SM B 58069 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Reptilia Order Squamata |
|---|---|
| Fossil Name | Platecarpus Cope, 1869 |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Platecarpus Cope, 1869 – See Lydekker, R. (1888c) Cetarthrosaurus walkeri Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1873): Holotype Ichthyosaurus walkeri Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1869a): Undifferentiated Type |
| Registration No. | B 58069 |
|---|---|
| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Walker, John Francis (d.1907) |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Ditton (near railway bridge), Cambridge (N.E.), Cambridgeshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Cambridge Greensand |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Lydekker, R. 1888 c. Catalogue of the fossil reptilia and amphibia in the British Museum part 1 p.270 Seeley, H.G. 1869 a. Index to the fossil remains of aves, ornithosauria and reptilia from the secondary system of strata pp. xvii, 64-65 Seeley, H.G. 1873. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxix pp.505-507 figs.1 a-b |
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