Coseley, near Dudley (BGS coll) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Middle Coal Measures (binds between the "Brooch" and "Thick" coals). Westphalian B, Duckmantian, according to recent papers.

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

• Repository: Geological Survey Museum of London (Hughes Collection, 1937)

Primary reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1953. Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arachnida of Europe. Geological Society of America Memoir 53:1-122 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155449: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae
"Cryptomartus hindi" = Anthracomartus hindi, "Cryptomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti
"Cryptomartus hindi" = Anthracomartus hindi Pocock 1911
BGS 60172
"Cryptomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti Pocock 1911
BGS 60171
 Haptopoda - Plesiosironidae
Plesiosiro madeleyi
Plesiosiro madeleyi Pocock 1911
BGS 60169