Shipley Manor clay pit (BMNH coll) (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, upper Modiolaris zone, Westphalian B

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1949. A study of the structure classification and relationships of the Palaeozoic Arachnida based on the collections of the British Museum. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 37:69-315 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152119: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Ricinulei - Curculioididae
Curculioides granulatus n. sp.
Curculioides granulatus n. sp. Petrunkevitch 1949 hooded tickspider
BMNH In. 18592