Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stair Hole Member (Durlston Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Beds of Clements (1993), Corbula beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.A. Mitchell

• Repository: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Primary reference: A. Borkent, R. A. Coram, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2013. The oldest fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Purbeck Limestone Group (Lower Cretaceous) of southern Great Britain. Polish Journal of Entomology 82:273-279 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154198: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2014

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