Durlston Bay, Corbula Beds, Swanage (Burnett 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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stair Hole Member (Durlston Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. S. Kelly, A. J. Ross, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2018. Earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Mesozoic of England and Australia, described from isolated tegmina, including the first species to be named from the Triassic. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:129-143 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192016: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dermaptera - Dermapteridae
Dimapteron corami n. gen. n. sp.
Dimapteron corami n. gen. n. sp. Kelly et al. 2018 earwig
NHMUK I.15008/In.59187