Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (MNEMG collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Worbarrow Tout Member (Lulworth Formation), Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery (MNEMG)

Primary reference: E. A. Jarzembowski and R. Coram. 1997. New fossil insect records from the Purbeck of Dorset and the Wealden of the Weald. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 118:119-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160652: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Chaoboridae
Chaoboridae indet. Edwards 1920 phantom midge
MNEMG 1998.25
 Diptera - Procramptonomyiidae
Procramptonomyiidae indet. Kovalev 1985 fly
MNEMG 1998.21