Old fair ground, Lawrence (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kansas (39.0° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 28.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lawrence Shale Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified shale

• Forest City Basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Joseph Savage in 1878 or 1879

• Either found or purchased by Mr. Lacoe

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. New types of cockroaches from the Carboniferous deposits of the United States. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 4(9):401-415 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122526: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• cockroach wing found among small lot of fossil plants
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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
"Etoblattina occidentalis n. sp." = Phyloblatta occidentalis
"Etoblattina occidentalis n. sp." = Phyloblatta occidentalis Scudder 1890 winged insect
Lacoe 2045ab