Bembridge Marls (CAMSM collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• The Bembridge Marls were deposited in fresh-brackish water lakes and lagoons

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

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Coenagrionidae
Coenagrionidae "indet. B" Kirby 1890 narrow-winged damselfly
CAMSM X.50140.143
 Thysanoptera - Aeolothripidae
Sinaeolothrips brodiei2 Cockerell 1917 thrips
CAMSM X.50140.47b (TN98)
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Taphopone petrosa1 Dlussky and Perfilieva 2014 ant
CAMSM X.50140.21 (TN71)
Taphopone aberrans1 Dlussky and Perfilieva 2014 ant
CAMSM X.50140.117 (TN173)
"Camponotus cockerelli" = Camponotites cockerelli1 Donisthorpe 1920 ant
Leucotaphus gurnetensis1 Cockerell 1915 ant
Oecophylla megarche1 Cockerell 1915 weaver ant
Emplastus britannicus1 Cockerell 1915 ant
 Hymenoptera - Agaonidae
Archaeagaon minutum1 Donisthorpe 1920 fig wasp
CAMSM X.50140.47a, 97c