Radstock Colliery, Tyning waste-heap (Newell Arber coll) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 9.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Radstock Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Precise horizon cannot be determined because the waste material from no fewer than five collieries is thrown upon the Tyning wate-heap

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by E.A. Newell Arber in 1912; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1914. On the occurrence of a giant dragon-fly in the Radstock Coal Measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 278:119-127 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127035: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae
"Meganeura radstockensis n. sp." = Boltonites radstockensis
"Meganeura radstockensis n. sp." = Boltonites radstockensis Bolton 1914 griffinfly