Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• It lies in detached pieces, a few large blocks being found, about 3 or 4 inches thick, scattered about over the fields, and seems to be near the surface ; but no section is exposed. Brodie also recorded the presence of the zonal ammonite Psiloceras planorbis in these blocks of ‘firestones and guineabed’, which would suggest a Hettangian age for the insects.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Brodie; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1933. The Panorpoid complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias. Fossil Insects, British Museum Natural History 3:1-79 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115368: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 01.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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