Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.0° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• "Upper Berriasian-Lower Barremian on the basis of ostracods... Nevertheless, it could be somewhat younger (Upper Hauterivian-Lower Barremian), on the basis of a work in progress on its charophytes"

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, brown limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by H. W. Ball & F. M. Wonnacott in 1960; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float)

• "Insects collected from scree material and their exact stratigraphical positions are unknown". Whalley & Jarzembowski, 1985

Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1985. Fossil insects from the Lithographic Limestone Montsech (Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous), Lérida Province, Spain. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 38(5):381-412 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118322: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 12.10.2011

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