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
Reposited in the BMNH
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 153546: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Myriapoda | |
Anaxeodesmus diambonotus n. gen. n. sp.
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Arachnida | |
Cyclophthalmus robustus n. sp.
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