Charmouth (GSM) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asteroceras obtusum ammonoid zone, Black Ven Marl Member (Charmouth Mudstone Formation), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary siliciclastic sediments

• fossil from a Flatstone Nodule

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, concretion

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 39(3):107-189 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 114646: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List includes only insects
Insecta
 Raphidioptera - Metaraphidiidae
Metaraphidia confusa n. gen. n. sp.
Metaraphidia confusa n. gen. n. sp. Whalley 1985 snakefly
GSM 117552