Auclaye Brickworks (BMNH collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Cymatophlebiidae
Valdaeshna surreyensis n. gen. n. sp.
Valdaeshna surreyensis n. gen. n. sp. Jarzembowski 1988 true dragonfly
BMNH In. 64632