Where: Lancaster, United Kingdom (53.8° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: communis other zone, Westphalian A (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• Middle Coal measures (blue-grey shales at 135-180 feet above the Boyley or Arley Mine) according to Bolton; Lower Coal Measures, above the Arley Mine Seam, communis zone according to Wootton. [Assumed to be the same interval]

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1921. A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures 1-80 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127287: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 08.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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