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Cambridge Greensand

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Type
  
Geological formation

Region
  
Europe

The Cambridge Greensand is a geological formation in England whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

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Birds

Enaliornis barretti - "Braincases, vertebrae, pelvis [and] limb elements.."

Enaliornis sedgwicki - "Hindlimb elements."

Enaliornis seeleyi - "Assorted cranial and postcranial elements"

Ornithischians

Anoplosaurus curtonotus - "Partial postcranium."

Anoplosaurus major - "Cervical vertebrae." "Vertebrae."

Acanthopholis eucercus - "[Two] caudal centra."

Acanthopholis platypus (in part) - "Phalanx, caudal centra."

Acanthopholis macrocercus (aka Syngonosaurus) - "Osteoderms." "Vertebrae, fragmentary skeleton elements."

Acanthopholis stereocercus - "Osteoderms." "Vertebrae."

Eucercosaurus tanyspondylus - "Vertebrae."

Trachodon cantabrigiensis - "Dentary tooth."

Saurischians

Acanthopholis platypus (in part) - "Metatarsals I-V."

Macrurosaurus semnus - "Caudal vertebrae"

Amblydectes crassidens

Amblydectes eurygnathus

Camposipterus colorhinus

Camposipterus nasutus

Camposipterus sedgwickii

Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus

Lonchodraco microdon

Ornithocheirus simus

"Ornithocheirus" capito

"Ornithocheirus" denticulatus

"Ornithocheirus" platystomus

"Ornithocheirus" polyodon

Ornithostoma sedgwicki

Cetarthrosaurus walkeri

Platypterygius campylodon

Sisteronia seeleyi

References

Cambridge Greensand Wikipedia