Sedgeley (BMNH collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Assumed to be correlative to Coseley, which is Middle Coal Measures (binds between the "Brooch" and "Thick" coals). Westphalian B, Duckmantian, according to recent papers.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1921. A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures 1-80 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167682: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Megasecoptera - Brodiidae
Brodia priscotincta
Brodia priscotincta Scudder 1881 winged insect
BMNH In. 18429