Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve (Bristol Museum collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Somerset, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 0.3° S, 9.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Farrington Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Roof of the number 10 coal seam

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified shale

• Deposited on an upper delta floodplain (Assemblage 4 of Proctor, 1994).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (BRSMG)

Primary reference: C. J. Proctor. 1998. Arthropleurids from the Westphalian D of Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve, Somerset. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 109:93-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153596: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Anissa Benabbas on 31.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura sp., Arthropleura armata
Arthropleura sp. Jordan 1854 millipede
BRSMG Cd4053, Cd4054, Cd4055, Cd4056, Cd4058
Arthropleura armata Jordan 1854 millipede
BRSMG Cd4057
Arachnida
 Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae
Bornatarbus mayasii
Bornatarbus mayasii Haupt 1955 phalangiotarbid
BRSMG Cd5259-5298