Teffont Evias (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Middle part of Purbeck

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by W.R. Andrews

• Specimens at Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes (DZSWS)

Primary reference: J. E. Jepson, V. N. Makarkin, and R. A. Coram. 2012. Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Cretaceous Research 34:31-47 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122907: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Neuroptera - Kalligrammatidae
Sophogramma wimbledoni n. sp. Jepson et al. 2012 lacewing
No. 15 of Revd. Andrews collection