Tipton (BGS collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Shale over the "Thick Coal"

Environment/lithology: delta plain; 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.
• Specimen is on a piece of dull grey shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Charles Ketley; reposited in the BGS

• Repository: Museum of Practical Geology (now BGS)

Primary reference: J. W. Salter. 1863. On some species of Eurypterus and allied forms. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 19:81-87 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155939: 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
"Eurypterus (Arthropleura) ferox n. sp." = Euphoberia ferox
"Eurypterus (Arthropleura) ferox n. sp." = Euphoberia ferox Salter 1863 millipede