Cily Bebyll, near Swansea (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.7° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Pretoria Seam, 60 feet above the Wernffraith Seam. Upper Coal Measures. (Possibly Stephanian A)

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, micaceous ironstone

• South Wales coalfield. Variscan foreland basin
• Dark, finely micaceous ironstone containing fragments of reed-like plants

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by E. Dix

• Plant material from Dix collection is in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, but it is not known whether the insects are also stored there.

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 151403: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
"Soomylacris celtica n. sp." = Sooblatta deanensis
"Soomylacris celtica n. sp." = Sooblatta deanensis Scudder 1895 cockroach