Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (Jones collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Hampshire, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 5.4° 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

• Fine-grained river channel plugs in a delta plain setting.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Nevil Jones; reposited in the BMNH

• Purchased from F.H. Butler in 1909, but came from the Nevil Jones collection

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 151108: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Curculionites optimus n. sp.
Curculionites optimus n. sp. Cockerell 1920 snout beetle
BMNH 12869