Borehole at Southalls Works, Charford, Birmingham (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.5° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Finstall Member (Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Bromsgrove Sandstone dated as Anisian on the basis of palynology (Benton et al. 1994); Finstall Member formerly known as the "Building Stones"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• "Wills interpreted the fossiliferous lenticular beds as deposits formed in channels, pools, or lakes on the floodplain and envisaged cyclothemic sedimentation from temporary rivers gradually filling the shallow subsiding Midland Cuvette"
• Wills noted that the majority of the fossils came from "lenticular beds of marl and shale, while some appear in the sandstone. Some horizons were very carbonaceous, and those contained abundant fragmentary arachnid remains. The red marl and red sandstone were barren of fossils, and plants occurred in the gray sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Wills; reposited in the SM

• Repository: CAMSM, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153541: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Spongiophonidae
Spongiophonus pustulosus n. gen. n. sp.
Spongiophonus pustulosus n. gen. n. sp. Wills 1947 scorpion
CAMSM Wills 280
 Scorpiones - Willsiscorpionidae
Willsiscorpio bromsgroviensis
Willsiscorpio bromsgroviensis Wills 1910 scorpion