Birchi Nodules, Black Ven, Charmouth (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shales with Beef Formation, Turneri (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, nodular limestone

• "Insects found in the Birchi Nodules" Whalley, 1985

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, concretion

Collected by J. F. Jackson in 1951-1953; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 39(3):107-189 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 114645: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Orthoptera - Triassomanteidae
Orichalcum ornatum n. gen. n. sp.
Orichalcum ornatum n. gen. n. sp. Whalley 1985 grasshopper
BMNH In 53983
 Orthoptera - Regiatidae
Micromacula gracilis n. sp.
Micromacula gracilis n. sp. Whalley 1985 grasshopper
BMNH In 49230
 Lepidoptera - Archaeolepiidae
Archaeolepis mane n. gen. n. sp.
Archaeolepis mane n. gen. n. sp. Whalley 1985 moth
BMNH In 59397