Brooki bed, Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis: Turneri, United Kingdom
collected by Robert Coram

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Orthoptera - Protogryllidae
Gorochov and Coram 2023 1 specimen
ZIN LD/Orth 19 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Gorochov and Coram 2023 5 specimens
ZIN LD/Orth 1, Orth 4, Orth 10, Orth 18, Orth 31
Insecta - Mecoptera - Eomeropidae
Soszyńska-Maj et al. 2016 1 specimen
ISEA I-F/MP/4/1637/14 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Skibińska et al. 2014 2 specimens
ISEA I-F/MP/2/1621/13, 12 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae
1 specimen
NHML In 28447 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.9° North, 10.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1
Key time interval: Turneri
Age range of interval: 199.5 - 192.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Lias Formation:Charmouth Mudstone Member:Shales-with-Beef
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Sinemurian, Turneri zone, Brooki subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:Robert Coram
Collection method comments: Repository: also Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, PAN, Kraków, Poland (ISEA)
Metadata
Database number:123282
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-17 18:51:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-17 18:51:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

39477. E. Krzemińska, R. A. Coram, and W. Krzemiński. 2010. A new species of Megarhyphus, an interesting discovery from the Lower Jurassic of England (Diptera, Anisopodidae). Acta Geologica Sinica 84(4):693-695 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

84819 A. V. Gorochov and R. A. Coram. 2023. New and little known taxa of the order Orthoptera (Insecta) from the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic of England. Palaeoentomology 6:198-204 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54507 K. Skibińska, W. Krzemiński, and R. A. Coram. 2014. Discovery of the most ancient member of family Tanyderidae (Diptera) from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of England. Zootaxa 3857:125-130 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
60712 A. Soszyńska-Maj, K. Krzemiński, K. Kopeć and R. A. Coram. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships within the relict family Eomeropidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) based on the oldest fossil from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Dorset, southern England. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14:1025-1031 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]