Ravenhead Railway cutting near St. Helens (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lancashire middle Coal Measure Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J.P.G. Smith's son, Clementson in 1870

• Repository: Derby & Mayer Museums, Liverpool

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123935: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
"Palaeodictyopteron higginsi n. sp." = Dictyoneura higginsii
"Palaeodictyopteron higginsi n. sp." = Dictyoneura higginsii Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
"Neuropterous insect wing" of Higgins, 1871
 Palaeodictyoptera -
"Palaeomantis macroptera n. gen. n. sp." = Paraboltonia macroptera
"Palaeomantis macroptera n. gen. n. sp." = Paraboltonia macroptera Bolton 1916 winged insect
Mentioned by Higgins, 1871