Dominion Coal Co. strip mine No. 7: Westphalian C - Westphalian D, Canada
collected by A.S. Romer 1956

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pelycosauria
Echinerpeton intermedium n. gen., n. sp. Reisz 1972
Reisz 1972 6 specimens
MCZ 4090 (holotype), 4091-4094; RM 10057 (paratypes)
Ophiacodontidae
Clepsydrops sp. Cope 1875
Archaeothyris florensis n. gen., n. sp. Reisz 1972
Reisz 1972 10 specimens
MCZ 4079 (type), 4080-4087; RM 10056 (paratypes)
Reptilia - Protorothyrididae
Paleothyris acadiana n. gen., n. sp. Carroll 1969
Carroll 1969 18 specimens
MCZ 3481 (holotype), 3472-3477, 3482-3492 (paratypes); specimen no. 3484 is possibly not P. acadiana but Archaeothyris florensis (Modesto, 2006, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 146)
Limnoscelidae
Limnostygis relictus n. gen., n. sp. Carroll 1967
1 individual
MCZ 3034 (type)
Eogyrinidae
Carbonoherpeton carrolli n. gen., n. sp.
Klembara 1985 1 individual
MCZ 2773 (Holotype)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cochleosauridae
Cochleosaurus sp. Fritsch 1885
"several skulls" (Reisz, 1972)
Cochleosaurus florensis n. sp. Rieppel 1980
Rieppel 1980
MCZ 4342, 4343 (holotype; skull), 4344, and 2773 (part)
Myriapoda - Xyloiulidae
Xylobius sp. Dawson 1860
Baird 1958 3 specimens
replaced by Xyloiulus
MCZ 5448, 5449, 5450
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nova Scotia County:Cape Breton Island
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 60.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.5° South, 3.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Moscovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
Key time interval:Westphalian C - Westphalian D
Age range of interval:314.60000 - 307.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Morien
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "... above the Lloyd Cove (Lower Bonar) coal of the Morien group."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:mire/swamp Tectonic setting:intermontane basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MCZ
Collectors:A.S. Romer Collection dates:1956
Metadata
Also known as:Sydney coal field; Florence, Cape Breton
Database number:80111
Authorizer:R. Reisz, M. Clapham, J. Mueller, R. Butler Enterer:R. Reisz, E. Dunne, M. Clapham, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht
Created:2008-04-04 13:01:09 Last modified:2009-01-13 19:34:10
Access level:the public Released:2008-04-04 13:01:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26895. R. L. Carroll. 1967. A Limnoscelid Reptile from the Middle Pennsylvanian. Journal of Paleontology 41(5):1256-1261 [R. Reisz/D. Mazierski]

Secondary references:

66417 D. Baird. 1958. New records of Paleozoic diplopod Myriapoda. Journal of Paleontology 32:239-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
28609 R. L. Carroll. 1969. A Middle Pennsylvanian captorhinomorph, and the interrelationships of primitive reptiles. Journal of Paleontology 43(1):151-170 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]
60224 J. Klembara. 1985. A new embolomerous amphibian (Anthracosauria) from the Upper Carboniferous of Florence, Nova Scotia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5:293-302 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]
28957 R. R. Reisz. 1972. Pelycosaurian Reptiles from the Middle Pennsylvanian of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144(2):27-60 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
58037 O. Rieppel. 1980. The edopoid amphibian Cochleosaurus from the middle Pennsylvanian of Nova Scotia. Palaeontology 23:143-150 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]