Where: United Kingdom (51.5° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 2.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lambeth Group, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Woolwich and Reading Beds
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Caleb Evans; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum, II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5:455-463 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140170: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Elaterites palaeophilus n. sp.
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? Ceutorhynchus eocenicus n. sp.
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