Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale (MM coll) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.6° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: communis other zone, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Middle Coal measures (blue-grey shales at 135-180 feet above the Boyley or Arley Mine) according to Bolton; Lower Coal Measures, above the Arley Mine Seam, communis zone according to Wootton. [Assumed to be the same interval]

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Manchester Museum

Primary reference: W. Baldwin and W. H. Sutcliffe. 1904. Eoscorpius sparthensis sp. nov., from the Middle Coal-Measures of Lancashire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 60:394-399 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127287: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 08.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Arthropoda indet.3
Arthropoda indet.3 Latreille 1829
MM L7097
Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera -
Rochdalia parkeri n. gen. n. sp.9, Spilaptera sutcliffei n. sp.2
Rochdalia parkeri n. gen. n. sp.9 Woodward 1913 winged insect
MM L11464
Spilaptera sutcliffei n. sp.2 Bolton 1916 winged insect
MM L8179
Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae
"Cryptomartus hindi" = Anthracomartus hindi6, "Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti6
"Cryptomartus hindi" = Anthracomartus hindi6 Pocock 1911
MM L7095
"Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti6 Pocock 1911
MM L8192
 Scorpiones -
Scorpiones indet.8
Scorpiones indet.8 Latreille 1817 scorpion
MM L8194
 Scorpiones - Eobuthidae
Eobuthus holti n. sp.7
Eobuthus holti n. sp.7 Pocock 1911 scorpion
F. Holt collection
 Scorpiones - Eoscorpiidae
Eoscorpius sparthensis n. sp.
Eoscorpius sparthensis n. sp. Baldwin and Sutcliffe 1904 scorpion
MM L6271
 Scorpiones - Allobuthiscorpiidae
Aspiscorpio eagari n. gen. n. sp.5
Aspiscorpio eagari n. gen. n. sp.5 Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
MM L8182 (Eoscorpius sparthensis in Petrunkevitch, 1953 partim)
Myriapoda
 Palaeosomatida - Palaeosomatidae
"Euphoberia robusta n. sp." = Palaeosoma robustum1, "Palaeosoma robustum" = Palaeosoma robustum4, "Acantherpestes giganteus n. sp." = Palaeosoma giganteum1
"Euphoberia robusta n. sp." = Palaeosoma robustum1 Baldwin 1911 millipede
MM L9943
"Palaeosoma robustum" = Palaeosoma robustum4 Baldwin 1911 millipede
MM L9944
"Acantherpestes giganteus n. sp." = Palaeosoma giganteum1 Baldwin 1911 millipede
MM L9941(2)
1Baldwin 1911; 2Bolton 1916; 3Dunlop 1999; 4Jackson et al. 1919; 5Kjellesvig-Waering 1986; 6Petrunkevitch 1953; 7Pocock 1911; 8Wills 1960; 9Woodward 1913