Wilmcote Decapod (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• from the "bottom- block"- bed of the Lower Lias

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1866. Notes on the Species of the Genus Eryon, Desm., from the Lias and Oolite of England and Bavaria. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 22:495-502 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139784: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 18.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Coleiidae
Coleia wilmcotensis Woodward 1866 decapod