Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.2° N, 66.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 8.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lancaster Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)
• Plant fossils indicate an early Westphalian B age (Stopes, 1914; Hayes and Howell, 1937; Bell, 1944b) for the Lancaster Formation at Saint John, now considered mid-upper Langsettian (Falcon-Lang & Miller, 2007).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by C.F. Hartt in 1862
Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1867. On some remains of Palaeozoic insects recently discovered in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Canadian Naturalist 3:202-206 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114459: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Lithentomum harttii n. gen. n. sp.
Lithentomum harttii n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1867 winged insect | |
Homothetus fossilis n. gen. n. sp.
Homothetus fossilis n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1867 winged insect | |
Dyscritus vetustus n. gen. n. sp.
Dyscritus vetustus n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1880 winged insect |