Auclaye Brickworks (MNEMG collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Surrey, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 0.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.8° N, 22.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Weald Clay Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian (132.6 - 125.8 Ma)

• clay interval above British Geological Survey sandstone 3a

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; concretionary, phosphatic claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: Repository: Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery (MNEMG)

Primary reference: E. A. Jarzembowski. 1988. A new aeshnid dragonfly from the Lower Cretaceous of south-east England. Palaeontology 31(3):763-769 [D. Smith/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74973: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.09.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham and Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Araripelibellulidae
Cretaneophya strevensi3 Jarzembowski and Nel 1996 true dragonfly
MNEMG 1995.62
 Orthoptera - Prophalangopsidae
Tettigoilus sonorus n. gen. n. sp.1
Tettigoilus sonorus n. gen. n. sp.1 Gorochov et al. 2006 hump-winged cricket
MNEMG 2003.43
 Orthoptera - Baissogryllidae
Anglogryllus lyristes n. gen. n. sp.1
Anglogryllus lyristes n. gen. n. sp.1 Gorochov et al. 2006 grasshopper
MNEMG 2003.46
 Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Mesoraphidia ednae n. sp.4 Jepson et al. 2011 snakefly
MNEMG 2009.42
 Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
Stygeonepinae indet.2 Popov 1971 giant water bug
MNEMG 1996.303
 Hemiptera -
Homoptera "larva C"2 Leach 1815 true bug
MNEMG 1996.301