Ridgeway (Fisher collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Lower Purbeck

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by O. Fisher; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104004: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.02.2011, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Notonectidae
Nepidium stolones n. sp. Westwood 1854 true bug
SM Fisher 37
 Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
"Locustopsis posterior n. sp." = Plesioschwinzia posterior
"Locustopsis posterior n. sp." = Plesioschwinzia posterior Gorochov et al. 2006 grasshopper
SM Fisher 36