South Liberty Colliery (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 7.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lower Coal Measures Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• 637 feet below the Bedminster Great Vein and 137 feet above the Ashton Great Vein (Lower Coal Measures are Langsettian in age).

Environment/lithology: delta plain; shale

• Somerset coal basin, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1911. Faunal horizons in the Bristol Coalfield. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 67:316-341 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127291: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 08.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Geraridae
Genentomum subacutum n. sp.
Genentomum subacutum n. sp. Bolton 1911 winged insect
Bristol Museum, no. C. 972