Tipton (Manchester Museum collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Shale over the "Thick Coal"

Environment/lithology: delta plain; 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.
• Specimen is on a piece of dull grey shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Manchester Museum

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1922. A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures 81-156 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122420: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 26.12.2011, edited by Lindy Edwards

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Orthoptera - Oedischiidae
Plesioidischia sp.
Plesioidischia sp. Schlechtendal 1906 grasshopper
Manchester Museum, no. L. 4905