St. Clair-Mahanoy City Road, bench mark 1271 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (40.7° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 15.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llewellyn Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• From the Buck Mountain (No. 5) seam, which is at the Pottsville-Llewellyn Formation contact, of Westphalian D age (Edmunds et al., 1979).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified shale

• Appalachian foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by William F. Klose

• Specimens at William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1980. Studies on North American Carboniferous insects. 6. Upper Carboniferous insects from Pennsylvania. Psyche 87:107-119 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114649: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 18.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Meganisoptera - Kohlwaldiidae
"Palaeotherates analis n. sp." = Solutotherates analis
"Palaeotherates analis n. sp." = Solutotherates analis Carpenter 1980 griffinfly
 Dicondylia -
? Caloneurodea indet. Martynov 1938 winged insect
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