Wainlode Cliff (Jarzembowski collection) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Avicula contorta other zone, Lias Group, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Lower Lias

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, micaceous, pyritic, white sandstone

• European epicontinental seaway
• "a fissile, white, micaceous sandstone, sometimes acquiring a flinty hardness. The upper surface of the bed is ripple-marked..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Jarzembowski in 1984; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1988. Mesozoic Neuroptera and Raphidioptera (Insecta) in Britain. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 44(1):45-63 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 117340: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 19.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dermaptera - Dermapteridae
Phanerogramma heeri
Phanerogramma heeri Giebel 1856 earwig
NHMUK II.1946
 Neuroptera -
"Archeosmylus cf. complexus" = Archeosmylus complesus
"Archeosmylus cf. complexus" = Archeosmylus complesus Whalley 1988 lacewing
NHM I 64664