Where: Pennsylvania (41.2° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 19.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pottsville Formation, Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• 10 feet below top of Conoquenessing Sandstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Harvey Bassler in 1916; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1918. New species of North American fossil beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54:301-311 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140161: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2013

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