Where: England, United Kingdom (53.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 7.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wigan Four-Foot Coal Formation, Westphalian A (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)
• Roof shale of Wigan Four-Foot coal. Uppermost Westphalian A, Lower Modiolaris Chronozone, regularis faunal belt.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by C.A. Horrocks
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Repository: Manchester Museum
Primary reference: J. A. Dunlop and C. A. Horrocks. 1996. A new specimen of the Carboniferous trigonotarbid arachnid Maiocercus celticus (Pocock 1902) from Lancashire, UK. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 51(1):23-31 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/A. Kinchloe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34944: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 21.10.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Maiocercus celticus Pocock 1902 | |
Mesotarbus peteri n. sp.
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