Empire mine in Wilkes-Barre (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (41.2° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 14.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• From the E Vein, which is Westphalian D according to Durden (1969).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale and coal

• Appalachian foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1884. The species of Mylacris, a Carboniferous genus of cockroaches. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:299-309 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125240: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 07.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Mylacridae carbonina Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
Lacoe 2022d