Coalbrook Dale (White Flatstone Measures, Prestwich collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Coalbrookdale

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• White Flat Ironstone Measures according to Prestwich (1840), Modiolaris Zone, Westphalian B according to Schram (1979).

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, sideritic mudstone

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Prestwich

• Repository: cabinet of J. Prestwich

Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1840. On the geology of Coalbrook Dale. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 5:413-495 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216649: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Eumalacostraca - Pygocephalidae
"Apus dubius n. sp." = Pygocephalus dubius
"Apus dubius n. sp." = Pygocephalus dubius Prestwich 1840
Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
"Limulus rotundatus n. sp." = Prestwichianella rotundata, "Limulus anthrax n. sp." = Prestwichianella anthrax
"Limulus rotundatus n. sp." = Prestwichianella rotundata Prestwich 1840
"Limulus anthrax n. sp." = Prestwichianella anthrax Prestwich 1840