Sedgley, near Dudley (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Shales or clay-bands at the top of the Brooch-coal

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified lithology not reported

• 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 The extensional tectonics of the early Carboniferous had been superseded by a phase of thermal subsidence, caused by the cooling of the asthenosphere beneath tectonically thinned lithosphere.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 C. Beale

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1887. On some spined myriapods from the Carboniferous series of England. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 4:1-10 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195183: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia ferox
Euphoberia ferox Salter 1863 millipede