Crock Hey opencast pit (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wigan Four-Foot Coal Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Langsettian; uppermost Westphalian A, lower Modiolaris chronozone. Concretion-bearing interval present in roof shale overlying Wigan Four-Foot Coal.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, concretionary, sideritic mudstone

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. Tenny in 2001-2005

Primary reference: J. Prokop, A. Nel, and A. Tenny. 2010. On the phylogenetic position of the palaeopteran Syntonopteroidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera), with a new species from the Upper Carboniferous of England. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 10:331-340 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/R. Day]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102655: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Syntonopteridae
Anglolithoneura magnifica n. gen. n. sp.
Anglolithoneura magnifica n. gen. n. sp. Prokop et al. 2010 winged insect
 Palaeodictyoptera - Homoiopteridae
Anglopterum magnificum n. gen. n. sp.
Anglopterum magnificum n. gen. n. sp. Prokop et al. 2006 winged insect