Where: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bembridge Marls Member (Bouldnor Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Upper part of 13r chron just above 1n interval
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by E. J. A'Court Smith; reposited in the SM
• Repository: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge (CAMSM)
Primary reference: A. Nel and G. Fleck. 2014. Dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) from the Late Eocene of the Isle of Wight. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104:283-306 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157669: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Emplastus britannicus1, Taphopone aberrans1, Taphopone petrosa1, Oecophylla megarche1, "Camponotus cockerelli" = Camponotites cockerelli1, Leucotaphus gurnetensis1
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