Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Black Ven Marl Member (Charmouth Mudstone Formation), Obtusum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• Holcoptera specimens were collected from indurated tabular limestone lenses in two of these beds, the ‘flatstones’ in Bed 83 h, at the top of the Obtusum Subchronozone, and the ‘topstones’ in Bed 85 within the Stellare Subchronozone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Primary reference: R. S. Kelly, A. J. Ross, and P. Davidson. 2017. Mesozoic Holcoptera (Coleoptera: Coptoclavidae) from England and the United States. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 128:659-674 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189405: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Holcoptera giebeli Handlirsch 1906 beetle NMW 91.14G.10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 32, 38, 39, 44, 46, 47, 49
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