Where: Rhode Island (41.8° N, 71.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 12.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

• "near the extreme western upturned edge of the Carboniferous in the plumbago mining district, and therefore probably older than the others."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by F. P. Gorham & H. Scholfield

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1893. Insect fauna of the Rhode Island coal field. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 101:1-21 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112703: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)