Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Middle Coal Measures (binds between the "Brooch" and "Thick" coals). Westphalian B, Duckmantian, according to recent papers.

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: now at University of Birmingham; formerly private collection of E. Hollier

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1871. On the discovery of a new and very perfect arachnide from the ironstone of the Dudley coal-field. The Geological Magazine 8:385-388 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153486: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2013

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