Alderton Hill (MCZ 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

Reposited in the MCZ

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 234544: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2024

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Liassogomphidae
Heterothemis sp. Handlirsch 1906 dragonfly
PALE-8749