Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 1.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Lias Formation, Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous shale and fine-grained, blue limestone
•"fine-grained blue limestone, dividing into thin slabs resembling the Solenhofen stone" Strickland, 1840
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by R.F. Tomes; reposited in the BMNH
• Purchased by British Museum in 1905
Primary reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1939. Fossil Orthoptera Ensifera 1-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123982: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.02.2012, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Hemipedina tomesii" = Diademopsis serialis4
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| Insecta | |
Protocoris indistinctus n. sp.3
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"Elcana sp." = Panorpidium6
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Hagla gracilis Giebel 1856 hump-winged cricket NHM I. 6696, 6717 (labeled "laminated beds"), 6662, 6666
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Holcoptera schlotheimi2 Giebel 1856 beetle NHMUK I.6651, 6653, 6733, 6734, 6735, 6737, 6742, 6743, 10731, 6786, 11085, 10732, 10736, 6682/11077
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"Omma liassica" = Omma liassicum1
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Liassophila hydromanicoides n. gen. n. sp.6
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Liassophlebia magnifica n. gen. n. sp.5
Liassophlebia magnifica n. gen. n. sp.5 Tillyard 1925 damsel-dragonflies BMNH I 6648 (10462) part & counter part one coming from Tomes collection & other Brodie collection
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"Diastatommites liassina" = Archithemis liassina5
"Diastatommites liassina" = Archithemis liassina5 Strickland 1840 dragonfly BMNH I 6647, 33065(33066) both specimens from Tomes collection
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