Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Psiloceras planorbis ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous shale and fine-grained, blue limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Rev. P.B. Brodie; reposited in the BMNH, USNM

• Purchased by British Museum in 1898. Some material given by Brodie to Mr. Lacoe, who donated it to the US National Museum.

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1915. British fossil insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 49:469-499 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113956: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.08.2011, edited by Jered Karr and Matthew Carrano

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