Shipley Manor (Digby) Claypit (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Coal Measures Formation, Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• About 30-40 feet below the Top Hard Coal. Lower similis-pulchra zone according to Petrunkevitch (1953).

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, ferruginous, nodular claystone

• Pennine Basin. The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.
• Fossils found in greyish-brown ironstone nodules occurring as bands in a yellow clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by L. Moysey; reposited in the BGS

• Formerly in Museum of Practical Geology (museum of Geological Survey), now presumably at BGS

Primary reference: R. I. Pocock. 1911. A Monograph of the Terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain 1-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127218: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 04.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura moyseyi n. sp.2
Arthropleura moyseyi n. sp.2 Calman 1914 millipede
Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera -
Pteronidia plicatula n. gen. n. sp.1
Pteronidia plicatula n. gen. n. sp.1 Bolton 1912 winged insect
Moysey Collection, Museum of Practical Geology 30224/30225
 Palaeodictyoptera - Cryptoveniidae
Cryptovenia moyseyi n. gen. n. sp.1
Cryptovenia moyseyi n. gen. n. sp.1 Bolton 1912 winged insect
Moysey Collection, Museum of Practical Geology 30226/30227
 Dicondylia - Boltonocostidae
"Orthocosta splendens n. gen. n. sp." = Boltonocosta splendens1
"Orthocosta splendens n. gen. n. sp." = Boltonocosta splendens1 Bolton 1912 winged insect
Moysey Collection, Museum of Practical Geology 30222/30223
Arachnida
 Thelyphonida - Thelyphonidae
Geralinura britannica
Geralinura britannica Pocock 1911 whip scorpion
BGS 30220/1
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracosironidae
Anthracosiro sp.4, Anthracosiro woodwardi4, Anthracosiro fritschii4
Anthracosiro sp.4 Pocock 1903
Anthracosiro woodwardi4 Pocock 1903
BGS 30239 (Fig 10 in Moysey); also part of Moysey's A. fritschii: 30234 (Fig 7 in Moysey), 30237/8 (Fig 8 in Moysey)
Anthracosiro fritschii4 Pocock 1903
BGS 30235/6 (Fig 9 in Moysey)
 Scorpiones -
Scorpiones indet.4
Scorpiones indet.4 Latreille 1817 scorpion
post-abdominal segment
 Scorpiones - Paraisobuthidae
Paraisobuthus duobicarinatus n. sp.3
Paraisobuthus duobicarinatus n. sp.3 Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
BGS 30245, 30246
Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
"Prestwichia sp." = Prestwichianella4
"Prestwichia sp." = Prestwichianella4 Woodward 1918
1Bolton 1912; 2Calman 1914; 3Kjellesvig-Waering 1986; 4Moysey 1911