Where: Quebec, Canada (48.8° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 64.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The Gaspe insect was macerated from a sample taken from a 1-cm-thick mudstone horizon occurring in a series of fluvial sediments of the Battery Point Formation, exposed along the north shore of Gaspe Bay, in Quebec, Canada. A late early Emsian date is indicated by spore assemblages, corresponding to an absolute time between 390 and 392 million years ago." "2.5 m above Geological Survey of Canada locality 5575, in the Camarozonotriletes sexantii spore assemblage zone." More often considered to be a modern contaminant, on the basis of the three-dimensional preservation of unaltered cuticle.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original chitin

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical,

Primary reference: C. C. Labandeira, B. S. Beall, and F. M. Hueber. 1988. Early insect diversification: evidence from a Lower Devonian bristletail from Québec. Science 242:913-916 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123190: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 13.01.2012

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