Clockhouse Rock Store, Clockhouse Brickworks (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Weald Clay Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Between the Clockhouse Sandstone and Cassiope Band

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, fine-grained, gray, yellow sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Primary reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn, E. A. Jarzembowski, and A. J. Ross. 1998. Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Purbeck and Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and their biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. Cretaceous Research 19:329-391 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123450: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Angarosphecidae
? Pompilopterus leei n. sp., ? Baissodes sp., Angarosphex bleachi n. sp.
? Pompilopterus leei n. sp. Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 apoid wasp
BMB 018525/6 (coll. A.J. Ross)
? Baissodes sp. Rasnitsyn 1975 apoid wasp
BMB 018512/3 (coll. W. Gordon)
Angarosphex bleachi n. sp. Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 apoid wasp
BMB 018515/6 (coll. G. Bleach)
 Hymenoptera - Blasticotomidae
Undatoma bicolor n. sp.
Undatoma bicolor n. sp. Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 wood wasp
BMB 018500/1 (coll. G. Bleach)