Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° 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)

• In this area, the insect bed is almost the lowest bed of the Lower Lias and overlies the White Lias (Rhaetian). The insect bed is either in the Rhaetian pre-Planorbis zone or lowestmost Hettangian Planorbis zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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

Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1982. Bintoniella brodiei Handlirsch (Orthoptera) from the lower Lias of the English Channel, with a review of British bintoniellid fossils. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 36(2):143-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113958: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.08.2011

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