Durlston Bay, Bed DB66, Soft Cockle Beds, Swanage (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Soft Cockle Beds = lower Worbarrow Tour Mbr

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. V. Gorochov, E. A. Jarzembowski, and R. A. Coram. 2006. Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research 27:641-662 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104006: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.02.2011, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Eoptychoptera longifurcata n. sp.4
Eoptychoptera longifurcata n. sp.4 Lukashevich et al. 2001 phantom crane fly
MNEMG 1998.18
 Diptera - Procramptonomyiidae
Procramptonomyia marianna1
Procramptonomyia marianna1 Krzemiński and Krzemińska 1994 fly
 Orthoptera - Tridactylidae
Cretoxya rasnitsyni n. gen. n. sp.
Cretoxya rasnitsyni n. gen. n. sp. Gorochov et al. 2006 pygmy mole cricket
 Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
"Mesoraphidia mitchelli n. sp." = Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli3
"Mesoraphidia mitchelli n. sp." = Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli3 Jepson et al. 2009 snakefly
MNEMG 2007.49
 Odonata - Araripelibellulidae
Araripelibellula britannica n. sp.2
Araripelibellula britannica n. sp.2 Fleck et al. 2008 true dragonfly
MNEMG 2008.24 R. A. Coram coll.
1Coram and Jarzembowski 1999; 2Fleck et al. 2008; 3Jepson et al. 2009; 4Lukashevich et al. 2001