Cefn Coed colliery (729 yards depth) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 7.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• No. 1 pit at a depth of 729 yards, from the roof of the Cornish Vein. Zone of C. similis.

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, black, blue shale

• South Wales coalfield, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

• Repository: Museum of Practical Geology (now BGS)

Primary reference: E. Dix and J. Pringle. 1930. Some coal measures arthropods from the south Wales coalfield. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 6:136-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172779: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
"Belinurus morgani n. sp." = Belinurus trilobitoides
"Belinurus morgani n. sp." = Belinurus trilobitoides Buckland 1837
BGS 49362