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.
Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale
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 34907: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 14.10.2003, edited by Lindy Edwards and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Poliochera alticeps n. sp." = Terpsicroton alticeps
"Poliochera alticeps n. sp." = Terpsicroton alticeps Pocock 1911 hooded tickspider W. Egginton no. 6
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"Geraphrynus torpedo n. sp." = Leptotarbus torpedo, "Geraphrynus angustus n. sp." = Mesotarbus angustus, "Geraphrynus eggintoni n. sp." = Mesotarbus eggintoni, "Geraphrynus tuberculatus n. sp." = Goniotarbus tuberculatus, "Goniotarbus tuberculatus" = Goniotarbus tuberculatus4
"Geraphrynus torpedo n. sp." = Leptotarbus torpedo Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid BMNH In. 31242 (W. Egginton no. 10)
"Geraphrynus angustus n. sp." = Mesotarbus angustus Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid BMNH In. 31258 (W. Egginton no. 36(26))
"Geraphrynus eggintoni n. sp." = Mesotarbus eggintoni Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid BMNH In. 31235 (W. Egginton no. 3)
"Geraphrynus tuberculatus n. sp." = Goniotarbus tuberculatus Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid BMNH In. 31263 (W. Egginton no. 46)
"Goniotarbus tuberculatus" = Goniotarbus tuberculatus4 Pocock 1911 phalangiotarbid BMNH In.31249, 31252
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Eocteniza silvicola n. gen. n. sp.
Eocteniza silvicola n. gen. n. sp. Pocock 1911 | |
"Graeophonus anglicus n. sp." = Weygoldtina anglica
"Graeophonus anglicus n. sp." = Weygoldtina anglica Pocock 1911 whip spider BMNH In. 31233, 31234, 31246, 31260 (W. Egginton no. 1, 2, 20, 40); 31257 (Egginton 34) in Petrunkevitch 1949
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Proschizomus petrunkevitchi2 Dunlop and Horrocks 1996 whip scorpion BMNH In.31265 (W. Egginton no. 49, paratype of Geralinura britannica)
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Geralinura britannica n. sp.
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Trigonotarbus johnsoni n. gen. n. sp.4
Trigonotarbus johnsoni n. gen. n. sp.4 Pocock 1911 BMNH In. 31239 (W. Egginton no. 7); 31240/1, 31243, 31254/5
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Anthracomartus hindi, "Anthracomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti, "Cleptomartus plautus" = Anthracomartus priesti4
"Anthracomartus priesti" = Anthracomartus priesti Pocock 1911 BMNH In. 31237 (W. Egginton no. 5) and ten others, including no. 26, 32, 52 ("most" belong to this species); In. 31264 (Egginton 48), 31268 (Egginton 53)
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Archaeometa nephilina n. gen. n. sp.
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"Lichnoscorpius minutus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4, "Coseleyscorpio lanceolatus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis3, "Typhlopisthacanthus anglicus n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4
"Lichnoscorpius minutus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4 Pocock 1911 scorpion BMNH In. 31266
"Coseleyscorpio lanceolatus n. gen. n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis3 Pocock 1911 scorpion BMNH In. 31262 (in Petrunkevitch, 1953)
"Typhlopisthacanthus anglicus n. sp." = Compsoscorpius buthiformis4 Pocock 1911 scorpion BMNH In. 31261
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