Alderton Hill (CHAGM collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.2° N, 16.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dumbleton Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation), Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• From the Fish Bed. Cleviceras exaratum Subzone, lower Harpoceras falciferum Zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Harriet Sophia Holland

• Repository: Wilson Museum, Cheltenham, UK (CHAGM)

Primary reference: E. J. Swaby, A. L. Coe, J. Ansorge, B. A. Caswell, S. A. L. Hayward, L. Mander, L. G. Stevens and A. McArdle. 2024. The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK. PLoS One 19(e0299551) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234543: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2024

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Heterophlebiidae
Heterophlebia sp. Westwood 1849 dragonfly
CHAGM F.651, F.654
 Odonata - Liassogomphidae
Heterothemis sp. Handlirsch 1906 dragonfly
CHAGM F.650, F.655, F.662
Heterothemis brodiei Brodie 1845 dragonfly
CHAGM F.653, F.657
 Dicondylia -
Archizygoptera indet. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
CHAGM F.630, F.652, F.681
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
CHAGM F.638, F.639, F.640, F.641, F.644, F.645, F.646, F.647, F.649, F.663, F.667
 Necrotrichoptera - Necrotauliidae
? Necrotaulius sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
CHAGM F.637
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Architipula sp. Handlirsch 1906 crane fly
CHAGM F.633
 Mecoptera - Bittacidae
Bittacidae indet. Handlirsch 1906 hangingfly
CHAGM F.632
 Mecoptera - Pseudopolycentropodidae
Pseudopolycentropus sp. Handlirsch 1906 scorpionfly
CHAGM F.656
 Dicondylia -
Blattodea indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach
CHAGM F.660
Hemiptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 true bug
CHAGM F.634, F.643, F.670, F.672
 Hemiptera -
Margaroptilon brodiei Handlirsch 1906 planthopper
CHAGM F.635, F.642, F.659, F.661, F.664
 Hemiptera - Fulgoridiidae
Fulgoridiidae indet. Handlirsch 1939 planthopper
CHAGM F.636