Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shales-with-Beef Member (Charmouth Mudstone Formation), Turneri (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, nodular limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, concretion
Collected by James Carroll
• Repository: private collection of James Carroll
Primary reference: R. S. Kelly, A. J. Ross, and P. Davidson. 2017. Mesozoic Holcoptera (Coleoptera: Coptoclavidae) from England and the United States. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 128:659-674 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187763: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Holcoptera giebeli Handlirsch 1906 beetle
Holcoptera schlotheimi Giebel 1856 beetle |