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Description: | Specimen of a fossil arachnid (spider), Anthracosiro woodwardi Pocock, collected from the Middle Coal Measures, Low Main Seam of Late Carboniferous, Westphalian, Duckmantian age from Phoenix Brickworks, Crawcrook, Tyne and Wear (NE England). Collected by W. Eltringham, E.L. Gill, (?) William.
There are only a few records of fossil spiders because they had soft bodies and lived out of water where the chances of being quickly buried and preserved were extremely small. The chemicals released from the body of this spider when it died helped form the nodule (blob-like growth) around it. The large abdomen, fused head and thorax (upper body) and some of its legs can be identified in the fine grained clay ironstone nodule.
The specimen was found in Tyne and Wear.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Chelicerata Classification: Animalia Eltringham Arachnida Invertebrata W. Arthropoda | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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