BB 51 Deep Creek & Youghiogheny river (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Maryland (39.6° N, 79.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 19.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allegheny Formation, Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Lower Allegheny, 3 ft above 'Conoquenessing'.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Appalachian foreland basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H. Bassler

• "The whole collection is the property of 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 124513: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 17.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Brachymylacris martini n. sp. Cockerell 1927 cockroach