Burnt Wood, Bembridge Marls (BMNH collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bembridge Marls Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Insect Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, argillaceous limestone

• The Bembridge Marls were deposited in fresh-brackish water lakes and lagoons

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. V. Antropov, S. A. Belokobylskij, S. G. Compton, G. M. Dlussky, A. I. Khalaim, V. A. Kolyada, M. A. Kozlov, K. S. Perfilieva, and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104:335-446 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157670: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Emplastus kozlovi n. sp.
Emplastus kozlovi n. sp. Dlussky and Perfilieva 2014 ant
BMNH PI II.2784