Durlston Bay, Corbula Beds, Swanage (ISEA 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)

• Corbula Beds, Stair Hole Member (upper Berriasian), Durlston Formation, Purbeck Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R.A. Coram

• Repository: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: K. Kopeć, A. Soszyńska, R. A. Coram and W. Krzemiński. 2023. New species of the enigmatic genus Tipunia (Diptera, Tipulidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan and Lower Cretaceous of England. Cretaceous Research 147(105512) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229929: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipunia kania n. sp. Kopeć et al. 2023 crane fly
ISEA I-F/MP/31, 32, 33