Tumble (Great Mountain Colliery) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• Triquart seam (also known as Threequarters Seam)

• 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 Trueman

• Repository: University College of Swansea

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 151394: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Blattodea indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach
wing fragment (additional specimen in Bolton, 1934)