Kansas City (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Missouri (39.0° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chanute Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

• specimen collected about 170 ft above the base of the Upper Barren Coal-Measures

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

• Craton interior; any subsidence likely from dynamic topography

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by S. J. Hare

• Specimen in the collection of Mr. R. D. Lacoe

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 124:1-176 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123813: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
"Promylacris harei n. sp." = Amblymylacris harei
"Promylacris harei n. sp." = Amblymylacris harei Scudder 1895 cockroach
Lacoe coll. 2087a
 Paoliida - Blattinopsidae
"Oryctoblattina laqueata n. gen. n. sp." = Blattinopsis laqueata
"Oryctoblattina laqueata n. gen. n. sp." = Blattinopsis laqueata Scudder 1895 winged insect
Lacoe coll. 2136a