Alderton, near Cheltenham (BMNH Coll.) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dumbleton Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation), Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• From the Fish Bed. Cleviceras exaratum Subzone, lower Harpoceras falciferum Zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) III:1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 07.08.2012, edited by Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides Bronn 1830
BMNH 28855 (purchased 1854)
Insecta
 Hemiptera -
Margaroptilon bulleni n. sp.1 Handlirsch 1906 planthopper
NHM found in 1877
Margaroptilon woodwardi n. sp.1 Handlirsch 1906 planthopper
NHM found in 1877
 Mecoptera - Orthophlebiidae
"Orthophlebia brodiei" = Mesopanorpa brodiei2
"Orthophlebia brodiei" = Mesopanorpa brodiei2 Tillyard 1933 scorpionfly
BMNH I.15017 (collected by S.S. Buckman, 1894)