Coseley, near Dudley (BMNH 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.

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153546: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
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Anaxeodesmus diambonotus n. gen. n. sp.
Anaxeodesmus diambonotus n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 2005 millipede
BMNH In.18370
Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Cyclophthalmidae
Cyclophthalmus robustus n. sp.
Cyclophthalmus robustus n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
BMNH In. 13976