Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Bucklandi (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• Highly likely from Bucklandi zone. Exposed cliffs at Church Cliff extend from bed 17/19 ("Specketty" - latest Hettangian but mostly covered) to bed 47 ("Glass Bottle"), encompassing the entire Bucklandi zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Mike Sanders in 1968; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann and C. E. Schweitzer. 2013. A new Early Jurassic lobster (Decapoda: Glypheoidea: Glypheidae) from Lyme Regis, England. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 39:1-5 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 147352: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Glyphea macromuscula n. sp.
Glyphea macromuscula n. sp. Feldmann and Schweitzer 2013 decapod |