Suckthumb Quarry, Isle of Portland (Hard Slatt) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.5° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• The Slatt [Hard Slatt], Lower Purbeck Beds = Hard Cockle Mbr, now lower Worbarrow Tout Mbr.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified lime mudstone

• Micritic limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R.A. Coram

• Specimens in Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton

Primary reference: V. G. Gratshev, V. V. Zherikhin, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1998. A new genus and species of weevil from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Cretaceous Research 19:323-327 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123428: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Nemonychidae
Metrioxenoides pusillus n. gen. n. sp.
Metrioxenoides pusillus n. gen. n. sp. Gratshev et al. 1998 pine flower snout beetle
BMB 019615/-6