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

Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.2° S, 5.5° E (Wright 2013)

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

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 34907: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 14.10.2003, edited by Lindy Edwards and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae
Anthracomartus hindi, "Anthracomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti, "Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti4
Anthracomartus hindi Pocock 1911
BMNH In. 31250 (W. Egginton no. 22), 31353 (Egginton 29)
"Anthracomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti Pocock 1911
BMNH In. 31237 (W. Egginton no. 5) and ten others, including no. 26, 32, 52 ("most" belong to this species); In. 31264 (Egginton 48), 31268 (Egginton 53)
"Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti4 Pocock 1911
BMNH In. 31251
 Trigonotarbida - Trigonotarbidae
Trigonotarbus johnsoni n. gen. n. sp.4
Trigonotarbus johnsoni n. gen. n. sp.4 Pocock 1911
BMNH In. 31239 (W. Egginton no. 7); 31240/1, 31243, 31254/5
 Haptopoda - Plesiosironidae
Plesiosiro madeleyi Pocock 1911
W. Egginton no. 4
 Thelyphonida -
Geralinura britannica n. sp. Pocock 1911 whip scorpion
BMNH In.31267 (Egginton 51)
Proschizomus petrunkevitchi2 Dunlop and Horrocks 1996 whip scorpion
BMNH In.31265 (W. Egginton no. 49, paratype of Geralinura britannica)
 Amblypygi - Weygoldtinidae
"Graeophonus anglicus n. sp." = Weygoldtina anglica
"Graeophonus anglicus n. sp." = Weygoldtina anglica Pocock 1911 whip spider
BMNH In. 31233, 31234, 31246, 31260 (W. Egginton no. 1, 2, 20, 40); 31257 (Egginton 34) in Petrunkevitch 1949
 Tetrapulmonata -
Eocteniza silvicola n. gen. n. sp.
Eocteniza silvicola n. gen. n. sp. Pocock 1911
 Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae
"Geraphrynus tuberculatus n. sp." = Goniotarbus tuberculatus, "Goniotarbus tuberculatus" = Goniotarbus tuberculatus4, "Geraphrynus angustus n. sp." = Mesotarbus angustus, "Geraphrynus eggintoni n. sp." = Mesotarbus eggintoni, "Geraphrynus torpedo n. sp." = Leptotarbus torpedo
"Geraphrynus tuberculatus n. sp." = Goniotarbus tuberculatus Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid
BMNH In. 31263 (W. Egginton no. 46)
"Goniotarbus tuberculatus" = Goniotarbus tuberculatus4 Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid
BMNH In.31249, 31252
"Geraphrynus angustus n. sp." = Mesotarbus angustus Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid
BMNH In. 31258 (W. Egginton no. 36(26))
"Geraphrynus eggintoni n. sp." = Mesotarbus eggintoni Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid
BMNH In. 31235 (W. Egginton no. 3)
"Geraphrynus torpedo n. sp." = Leptotarbus torpedo Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid
BMNH In. 31242 (W. Egginton no. 10)
 Scorpiones -
"Coseleyscorpio lanceolatus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis3, "Typhlopisthacanthus anglicus n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4, "Lichnoscorpius minutus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4
"Coseleyscorpio lanceolatus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis3 Pocock 1911 scorpion
BMNH In. 31262 (in Petrunkevitch, 1953)
"Typhlopisthacanthus anglicus n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4 Pocock 1911 scorpion
BMNH In. 31261
"Lichnoscorpius minutus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4 Pocock 1911 scorpion
BMNH In. 31266
 Opiliones - Archaeometidae
Archaeometa nephilina n. gen. n. sp.
Archaeometa nephilina n. gen. n. sp. Pocock 1911 harvestman
NHMUK In 31259
 Ricinulei - Poliocheridae
"Poliochera alticeps n. sp." = Terpsicroton alticeps
"Poliochera alticeps n. sp." = Terpsicroton alticeps Pocock 1911 hooded tickspider
W. Egginton no. 6
 Ricinulei - Curculioididae
Curculioides mcluckiei5 Selden 1992 hooded tickspider
W. Egginton no. 17
Insecta
 Dicondylia - Necymylacridae
Aphthoroblattina eggintoni n. sp.1 Bolton 1922 winged insect
W. Egginton, no. 1
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Aphthoroblattina johnsoni" = Archimylacris acadica1
"Aphthoroblattina johnsoni" = Archimylacris acadica1 Scudder 1868 cockroach
W. Egginton no. 2