Phoenix Brickworks, Crawcrook (BMNH coll) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (314.6 - 314.6 Ma)

• Coal measures (shale above the Crow Coal). Siltstones above the Hutton Coal, upper Modiolaris zone

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, nodular, sideritic 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.
• ironstone nodule

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by William Eltringham; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1916. On some insects from the British coal measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 72:43-62 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127286: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 08.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Graeophonus
  -
? Graeophonus sp. Scudder 1890
BMNH In. 39768
Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Hypermegethes northumbriae n. sp. Bolton 1916 winged insect
BMNH In. 18524
Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracosironidae
Anthracosiro woodwardi Pocock 1903
BMNH In. 39769
 Trigonotarbida - Kreischeriidae
"Eophrynus varius n. sp." = Pseudokreischeria pococki
"Eophrynus varius n. sp." = Pseudokreischeria pococki Gill 1924
BMNH In. 39767
 Ricinulei - Curculioididae
Curculioides eltringhami n. sp. Petrunkevitch 1949 hooded tickspider
BMNH In. 39771
 Scorpiones - Eoscorpiidae
"Lichnophthalmus pulcher n. gen. n. sp." = Eoscorpius pulcher, "Europhthalmus longimanus n. gen. n. sp." = Eoscorpius mucronatus
"Lichnophthalmus pulcher n. gen. n. sp." = Eoscorpius pulcher Petrunkevitch 1949 scorpion
BMNH In. 39772; In.39770 in Wills, 1959
"Europhthalmus longimanus n. gen. n. sp." = Eoscorpius mucronatus Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
BMNH In. 39766