A new specimen of the Carboniferous trigonotarbid arachnid
            <i>Maiocercus celticus</i>
            (Pocock 1902) from Lancashire, UK

Dunlop, Jason A.; Horrocks, Carl A.

doi:10.1144/pygs.51.1.23

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“…This included Czech Republic anthracomatids held in the National Museum Prague (NMP), mostly preserved compressed in shales from the Coal Measures of Bohemia. Further specimens in siderite nodules collected by Carl Horrocks from Lancashire, UK are held in the Manchester Museum (MM) (see Dunlop and Horrocks 1996). The holotype of Maiocercus celticus (Pocock, 1902) from the South Wales coalfield is held in the National Museum of Wales (NMW).…”

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Morphology and systematics of anthracomartidae (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida)

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Dunlop

2011

Palaeontology

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“…Median and lateral eye tubercles retained and anterior margin of the carapace pronounced into a short, steeply descending projection or clypeus. Endite‐like elements retained on the mesal part of the leg coxae (emended from Dunlop and Horrocks 1996, p. 29).…”

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Morphology and systematics of anthracomartidae (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida)

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Dunlop

2011

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“…Dunlop & Horrocks (1996) also noted two less well-preserved specimens (LL 11144, 11145). A total of seven specimens of this species have now been recovered from Westhoughton.…”

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“…Maiocercus celticus, a species originally recorded from the Westhoughton area as M. orbicularis by Gill (1911), was described and figured from a new, almost complete specimen (LL11143) from the site by Dunlop & Horrocks (1996). Dunlop & Horrocks (1996) also noted two less well-preserved specimens (LL 11144, 11145).…”

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Soft-bodied fossils from the roof shales of the Wigan Four Foot coal seam, Westhoughton, Lancashire, UK

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Exceptionally preserved fossils are described from the Westhoughton opencast coal pit near Wigan, Lancashire, UK (uppermost Westphalian A, Lower Modiolaris Chronozone, regularis faunal belt). The fossils occur within sideritic concretions in a 1.5-metre zone above the Wigan Four Foot coal seam. Arthropods dominate the fauna and include arachnids, arthropleurids, crustaceans, eurypterids, euthycarcinoids, millipedes and xiphosurans. Vertebrates are represented by a single palaeoniscid fish, numerous disarticulated scales and coprolites. Upright Sigillaria trees, massive bedded units and a general lack of trace fossils in the roof shales of the Wigan Four Foot coal seam suggest that deposition of the beds containing these concretions was relatively rapid. Discovery of similar faunas at the equivalent stratigraphic level some distance away point to regional rather than localized controls on exceptional preservation.

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“…Petrunkevitch 1955) and examples of Anthracomartus from near Brçcken in Germany (Ammon 1901) and Radvanice in the Czech Republic (Opluštil 1985). Aphantomartus was recorded by Selden and Romano (1983) from LeÕn Province in Spain, by Correia et al (2013) from Portugal, by Raeßler (1998) from the Saale Basin at Plaetz near Halle, Germany, and by Dunlop (1999b) from Montceau-les-Mines in France. In a conference abstract Eskov (1998) noted further trigonotarbids from the Kasimovian stage, at least one eophrynid from Chunya in the Tunguska Basin and one aphantomartid from Zheltyi Yar in the Kuznetsk Basin (both Russia).…”

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confidence: 98%