Where: Pennsylvania (40.7° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 17.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sharp Mountain Member (Pottsville Formation), Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• "From shales about 40' below B coal" Handlirsch, 1906. The B coal is in the basal Llewellyn Formation, which places this collection in the uppermost Pottsville Formation, in the Westphalian D part of the unit (Edmonds et al. 1979).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, carbonaceous shale and anthracite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H. Burrows; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Revision of American Paleozoic insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1441):661-820 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125548: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 14.03.2012

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