Claxheugh on the Wear (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anthracomya phillipsii other zone, Upper Coal Measures Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray ironstone

• "The ironstone containing the fossils is compact and grey" Kirkby, 1867

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by C.T. Trechmann

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1918. Notes on some fossil arthropods from the Carboniferous rocks of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, received from Dr. H. M. Ami, M.A., F.G.S., F.R.S., (Can.). The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade VI 5:462-471 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139748: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 17.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
"Bellinurus trechmanni n. sp." = Belinurus trilobitoides
"Bellinurus trechmanni n. sp." = Belinurus trilobitoides Buckland 1837