Woodhill Quarry, Kilmaurs (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (55.6° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Found in ironstone nodules in a bed of shale up to 1 m thick, immediately above a worked bed of sandstone that lies immediately above the Darroch Coal seam (Craig 1900; Anderson 1925; Richey et al. 1930). Although marine bands do not occur in this area, the Darroch Coal lies about 78 m below the base of the Barren Red Measures, between the Major Coal and Hurlford Main Coal seams, within the Middle Coal Measures (Richey et al. 1930, p. 229; Cameron & Stephenson 1985), and therefore Westphalian B in age.

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, ferruginous, nodular, sandy shale

• Central Coalfield basin in Midland Valley; extensional basin in a dextral transtensional setting
• Grey sandy shale with nodules of impure clay and ironstone, 91 ft. 6 in. below the surface

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by T. Brown

• Repository: National Museums of Scotland

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1871. On Euphoberia Brownii, H. Woodw., a new species of myriapod from the Coal-measures of the west of Scotland. The Geological Magazine 8:102-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195182: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia brownii n. sp. Woodward 1871 millipede
NMS G.1884.46.180