South Good Spring colliery (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (40.6° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 15.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llewellyn Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Upper Allegheny likely from "Mammoth Vein". The Mammoth seam is in the basal part of the Llewellyn Formation, which is Westphalian D.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Appalachian foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W. Victor Lehman; reposited in the CM

• Purchased by Carnegie Museum in 1910 (collection 4032). Some specimens kept in the Maryland Geological Survey (Cockerell, 1927)

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1927. The Carboniferous Insects of Maryland. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 19:385-416 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124504: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Caloneurodea - Caloneuridae
Caloneurella carbonaria n. gen. n. sp.
Caloneurella carbonaria n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter 1934 winged insect
CM 6894(6895)
 Grylloblattodea - Epideigmatidae
"Fabreciella pennsylvanica n. gen. n. sp." = Fabreciella pennsylvanica, "Fabreciella allegheniensis n. sp." = Fabreciella pennsylvanica
"Fabreciella pennsylvanica n. gen. n. sp." = Fabreciella pennsylvanica Carpenter 1934 ice crawler
CM 6896
"Fabreciella allegheniensis n. sp." = Fabreciella pennsylvanica Carpenter 1934 ice crawler
CM 6897
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Plagioblatta cockerelli n. sp.
Plagioblatta cockerelli n. sp. Carpenter 1934 cockroach
CM 6900, ?6901
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Actinomylacris similis n. sp., Hemimylacrella mammothi n. sp.
Actinomylacris similis n. sp. Carpenter 1934 cockroach
CM 6907(6908)
Hemimylacrella mammothi n. sp. Carpenter 1934 cockroach
CM 6898(6899)
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
"Phyloblatta pennsylvanica n. sp." = Xenoblatta pennsylvanica, Phylloblatta indecisa n. sp., Phyloblatta prior n. sp.
"Phyloblatta pennsylvanica n. sp." = Xenoblatta pennsylvanica Carpenter 1934 winged insect
CM 6902
Phylloblatta indecisa n. sp. Cockerell 1927 winged insect
Phyloblatta prior n. sp. Cockerell 1927 winged insect
 Dicondylia - Schizoblattidae
Schizoblatta pennsylvanica n. sp.
Schizoblatta pennsylvanica n. sp. Carpenter 1934 winged insect
CM 6903