Phoenix Brickworks, Crawcrook (King's College coll) (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)

• Crow Coal

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Primary reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1953. Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arachnida of Europe. Geological Society of America Memoir 53:1-122 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155451: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracosironidae
Anthracosiro woodwardi
Anthracosiro woodwardi Pocock 1903
Specimen no. 13