Coalbrook Dale (Hope 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)

• Horizon given by Schram (1979) as the White Flat Ironstone Measures, Modiolaris Zone, Westphalian B; this horizon agrees with the description in Prestwich (1840) of the "Pennystone Measures" of Coalbrookdale.

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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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 Rev. F.W. Hope

• Repository: collection of the Reverend F.W. Hope, Oxford

Primary reference: P. B. Brodie. 1845. A History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of England Accompanied by a Particular Account of the Strata in which they Occur, and of the Circumstances Connected with their Preservation 1-130 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155938: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
"Acantherpestes brodiei n. sp." = Euphoberia ferox
"Acantherpestes brodiei n. sp." = Euphoberia ferox Salter 1863 millipede