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
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 | |
Metrioxenoides pusillus n. gen. n. sp.
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