Cefn Coed colliery (1824 feet depth) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 7.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• No. 2 shaft, at 1824 feet depth, and 142 feet below the Black-band Ironstone. Base of Anthracomya pulchra zone, Yorkian series.

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, black shale

• South Wales coalfield, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1934. New forms from the insect fauna of the British coal measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 90:277-301 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151399: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Protorthoptera -
Polyetes problematica n. sp. Bolton 1934 winged insect
BGS 52736/7