Divett potteries, Bovey Tracey (Oligocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 6.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bovey Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified siltstone

• River floodplain and small, impermanent lake deposits. The Bovey Basin is a Cenozoic pull-apart basin associated with the Sticklepath-Lustleigh fault zone on the southeastern flank of the Dartmoor granite.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Oswald Heer

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1862. On the fossil flora of Bovey Tracey. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152:1039-1086 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154311: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Buprestites falconeri n. sp.
Buprestites falconeri n. sp. Heer 1862 jewel beetle