South Staffordshire (Beale collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 8.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• "agree in all respects with those found at Tipton and Coseley in the binds between the "Brooch" and "Thick" coals of the Middle Coal Measures"

Environment/lithology: delta plain; siliciclastic sediments

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1917. On blattoid and other insect remains from the South Staffordshire coalfield. Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society 14:100-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167681: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Megasecoptera - Brodiidae
Brodia priscotincta
Brodia priscotincta Scudder 1881 winged insect