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Fossil specimen : BMB BMB 018499 [1] – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Insecta

      Order -

Fossil Name Bechlya ericrobinsoni Jarzembowski & Nel 2002
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Bechlya ericrobinsoni Jarzembowski & Nel 2002

Provenance
Registration No. BMB 018499 [1]
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Booth Museum of Natural History
Comments Counterpart to BMB 018498
Location
Country England
Locality Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve, Lower Writhlington, near Radstock, Bath, Somerset
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Westphalian D, Late Westphalian Coal Measures
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Substage D (Carboniferous Period) (307 – 309 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age ]

References
References

Jarzembowki, E.A., & Nel, A. 2002. The earliest damsel-like insect and the origin of modern dragonflies 145 (Insecta: Odanoptera: Protozygoptera). Proc. Geol. Ass. 113 (2), 165-169. Jarzembowski, E.A. & Nel, A., 2002, p.165-69, Fig.2 a (018498) & b (018499).

Available Images

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