Durlston Bay, Bed D53 (MNEMG collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lulworth Formation (Purbeck Group), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery

Primary reference: R. A. Coram and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1999. New fossil flies (Insecta: Diptera) from the Purbeck Limestone Group (Lower Cretaceous, Berriasian) of Dorset, UK. Cretaceous Research 20:853-861 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122402: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 23.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Procramptonomyiidae
Procramptonomyia cf. marianna Krzemiński and Krzemińska 1994 fly
MNEMG 1998.21a, b