Where: Hampshire, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 5.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Poole Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Lower Bagshot Formation, leaf beds
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Brodie; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, III. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 6:65-72 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151107: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Buprestites purbecensis n. sp.
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