Coalbrook Dale (Pennystone Measures, Anstice collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Coalbrookdale

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• According to Prestwich (1840), from the "Pennystone Measures" of Coalbrookdale. The Chance Pennystone Ironstone is basal Westphalian C according to Hamblin et al., 1989.

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W. Anstice; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. Buckland. 1837. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation. Treatise IV. Geology and Mineralogy with Reference to Natural Theology 2:1-131 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122563: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Lithomanteidae
"Corydalis brongniarti n. sp." = Lithosialis brongniarti
"Corydalis brongniarti n. sp." = Lithosialis brongniarti Mantell 1844 winged insect
Arachnida
 Ricinulei - Curculioididae
Curculioides ansticii n. gen. n. sp.
Curculioides ansticii n. gen. n. sp. Buckland 1837 hooded tickspider
BMNH In. 49323
 Trigonotarbida - Eophrynidae
"Curculioides prestvicii n. sp." = Eophrynus prestvicii
"Curculioides prestvicii n. sp." = Eophrynus prestvicii Buckland 1837
BMNH In. 49322