Beach near Kettle Point (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Rhode Island (41.8° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 12.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Allegheny Formation, Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Narragansett rift basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Hebert 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 112706: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Etoblattina exilis n. sp. Scudder 1893 cockroach