Brickworks near Crawcrook (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Coal measures (shale above the Crow Coal). Siltstones above the Hutton Coal, upper Modiolaris zone

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale

• Pennine Basin. The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.
• ironstone nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1909

• Repository: Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Primary reference: E. L. Gill. 1909. An arachnid from the coal measures of the Tyne Valley. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, New Series 3:510-523 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153489: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracosironidae
"Anthracosiro latipes n. sp." = Anthracosiro woodwardi
"Anthracosiro latipes n. sp." = Anthracosiro woodwardi Pocock 1903
possibly specimen NEWHM:G28.62