Coast of Ayrshire, near Ayr (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Lanark

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.5° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• "Mittleres Obercarbon" according to Handlirsch. An ironstone nodule horizon containing arthropods occurs in the Middle Coal Measures (Westphalian B) near Kilmarnock, 13 miles NNE of Ayr ("Greenhill Quarry"), so the holotype of Lithomantis carbonarius is likely to be of this age. (Ross, 2010).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale

• Central Coalfield basin in Midland Valley; extensional basin in a dextral transtensional setting
• Ironstone nodule

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1876. On a remarkable fossil orthopterous insect from the Coal-measures of Scotland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 32:60-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123955: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Lithomanteidae
Lithomantis carbonarius n. gen. n. sp.
Lithomantis carbonarius n. gen. n. sp. Woodward 1876 winged insect
BMNH I.8118