PBDB Collection

Coseley, near Dudley (Madeley coll) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Staffordshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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: R. I. Pocock. 1911. A Monograph of the Terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain 1-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34906: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 14.10.2003, edited by Lindy Edwards and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
Haptopoda - Plesiosironidae	Plesiosiro madeleyi n. gen. n. sp. Plesiosiro madeleyi n. gen. n. sp. Pocock 1911 BMNH I. 7922, 7923
Amblypygi - Weygoldtinidae	"Graeophonus anglicus" = Weygoldtina anglica⁴ "Graeophonus anglicus" = Weygoldtina anglica⁴ Pocock 1911 whip spider BNH I.7892, 7905
Thelyphonida -	Proschizomus petrunkevitchi n. gen. n. sp.² Proschizomus petrunkevitchi n. gen. n. sp.² Dunlop and Horrocks 1996 whip scorpion BMNH I.7912
Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae	"Cryptomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti⁴, "Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti⁴, "Cleptomartus planus n. sp." = Anthracomartus hindi⁴ "Cryptomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti⁴ Pocock 1911 BMNH I.7893 "Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti⁴ Pocock 1911 BMNH I. 7915, 7884/7916, 7920 "Cleptomartus planus n. sp." = Anthracomartus hindi⁴ Pocock 1911 BMNH I.7918
Trigonotarbida - Trigonotarbidae	Trigonotarbus johnsoni Trigonotarbus johnsoni Pocock 1911 BMNH I.7895
Scorpiones -	"Compsoscorpius elegans n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis⁴ "Compsoscorpius elegans n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis⁴ Pocock 1911 scorpion
Ricinulei - Curculioididae	Curculioides pococki n. sp.⁵ Curculioides pococki n. sp.⁵ Selden 1992 hooded tickspider
Insecta
Caloneurodea - Hapalopteridae	Geroneura ovata n. gen. n. sp.¹ Geroneura ovata n. gen. n. sp.¹ Bolton 1921 winged insect BMNH Madeley Collection, no. I. 2965
Megasecoptera - Brodiidae	"Brodia nebulosa n. sp." = Brodia priscotincta³, "Brodia nympha" = Brodia priscotincta³, "Brodia pictipennis n. sp." = Brodia priscotincta³, "Brodia furcata n. sp." = Brodia priscotincta³ "Brodia nebulosa n. sp." = Brodia priscotincta³ Scudder 1881 winged insect BMNH I.2961 "Brodia nympha" = Brodia priscotincta³ Scudder 1881 winged insect BMNH I.2966, 2967, 2968, 2969 "Brodia pictipennis n. sp." = Brodia priscotincta³ Scudder 1881 winged insect BMNH I.2961 (number from Bolton, 1921) "Brodia furcata n. sp." = Brodia priscotincta³ Scudder 1881 winged insect British Museum, no. I. 2962 (assumed to be Madeley collection)
Dicondylia -	Pteronepionites lepus n. sp.¹, Pteronepionites ambigua n. sp.¹ Pteronepionites lepus n. sp.¹ Bolton 1921 winged insect BMNH Madeley Collection, no. I. 2969 Pteronepionites ambigua n. sp.¹ Bolton 1921 winged insect BMNH Madeley collection, no. I. 2968

¹Bolton 1921; ²Dunlop and Horrocks 1996; ³Handlirsch 1919; ⁴Petrunkevitch 1949; ⁵Selden 1992