Bed 83, Stonebarrow, Charmouth (Carroll collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Obtusum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone

• "The calcareous mudstone in which the insects are preserved varies in fineness and is frequently full of burrows…" Whalley, 1985

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 189408: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Holcoptera alisonae
Holcoptera alisonae Kelly et al. 2017 beetle