Garngoch Colliery, near Swansea (Six Feet seam) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 7.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (314.6 - 314.6 Ma)

• Roof of Six Feet seam

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• South Wales coalfield, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: National Museum of Wales

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 172786: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Eophrynidae
"Eophrynus warei n. sp." = Pleophrynus verrucosus
"Eophrynus warei n. sp." = Pleophrynus verrucosus Pocock 1911
NMW 30.46.G1 (not 30.41.G1)