Fairlight (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fairlight Clays Member (Ashdown Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Dechardin, Pelletier; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: N. D. Sinitshenkova. 1998. The first European Cretaceous stonefly (Insecta, Perlida = Plecoptera). Cretaceous Research 19:317-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123449: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Plecoptera -
Ecdyoperla fairlightensis n. gen. n. sp. Sinitshenkova 1998 stonefly
BMNH I.15135