Where: Surrey, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Weald Clay Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)
• clay interval above British Geological Survey sandstone 3a
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; concretionary, phosphatic claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: concretion
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: A. V. Gorochov, E. A. Jarzembowski, and R. A. Coram. 2006. Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research 27:641-662 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160653: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Valdaeshna surreyensis n. gen. n. sp.
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