Hastings (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified lime mudstone

• Micritic limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138971: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
Coleopteron, Brodie, Distr. corr. foss. ins. 12. 1873.