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
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by William F. Klose II
• 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 122502: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Amboneura klosei n. gen. n. sp.
Amboneura klosei n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter 1980 winged insect |