Binton, near Bidford (Gibbs collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Beds near the base of the Lias

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, blue limestone

• "fine-grained blue limestone, dividing into thin slabs resembling the Solenhofen stone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Gibbs

• Specimen likely lost

Primary reference: H. E. Strickland. 1840. On the occurrence of a fossil Dragon-fly in the Lias of Warwickshire. Magazine of Natural History, New Series 4:301-303 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153645: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.01.2014, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Campterophlebiidae
"Aeshna liassina n. sp." = Archithemis liassina
"Aeshna liassina n. sp." = Archithemis liassina Strickland 1840 dragonfly
Collected by Mr. J Gibbs of Evesham; specimen now untraceable