Open Works, Dudley (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Middle Coal Measures (binds between the "Brooch" and "Thick" coals). Westphalian A, communis chronozone according to Legg et al., 2012.

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.
• Fossils commonly contained in ironstone nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Holcroft collection in the University of Birmingham

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 155452: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracosironidae
Anthracosiro woodwardi
Anthracosiro woodwardi Pocock 1903
H.C. No. 36