Beili Glas Colliery, Gorseinon (Penyscallen Seam) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Penyscallen Seam, Grovesend beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified shale

• South Wales coalfield, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by D. Davies

• Repository: National Museum of Wales

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1930. Fossil insects of the south Wales coalfield. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 86:9-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151389: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Blattodea indet.
Blattodea indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach
hindwing NMW 27,177 G11 and forewing fragment
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
"Phylomylacris cf. villeti" = Sooblatta villeti, "Phylomylacris abrupta n. sp." = Mylacris abrupta, "Phylomylacris cf. abrupta" = Mylacris abrupta
"Phylomylacris cf. villeti" = Sooblatta villeti Pruvost 1912 cockroach
NMW 27,177 G12
"Phylomylacris abrupta n. sp." = Mylacris abrupta Bolton 1930 cockroach
NMW 27,177 G10/G36
"Phylomylacris cf. abrupta" = Mylacris abrupta Bolton 1930 cockroach
NMW 27,177 G13