Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.3° N, 60.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 3.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.5 Ma)

• "...from a rather lower horizon than that in which the Cape Breton species of Mylacris occurred, or in the lower part of the middle coal formation near the upper limit of the millstone grit." Scudder, 1879

•"Allegheny" age in Handlirsch. Sydney Coalfield considered to range from Westphalian C to Cantabrian in age (Lonchopteris eschweileriana and L. oblique zones).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. J. Hill

• Repository: McGill University (for some specimens at least)

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1876. New and interesting insects from the Carboniferous of Cape Breton. The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science 8:88-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012

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