Forest of Dean (NHMUK collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Early Cantabrian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. Prokop, M. Pecharová, E. A. Jarzembowski and A. J. Ross. 2018. New palaeodictyopterans from the Late Carboniferous of the UK (Insecta: Palaeodictyopterida). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:99-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192012: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Lycocercidae
? Lycocercidae indet. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
NHMUK II.3093