Where: Pennsylvania (41.4° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 14.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: E Coal Member (Pottsville Formation), Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)
• "…specimen from shale over the E coal or Pittston coal…" Scudder, 1895. Pittston coal is lower Westphalian D according to Durden (1969).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, carbonaceous shale and anthracite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by R. D. Lacoe; reposited in the USNM
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 125698: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"? Paromylacris pluteus n. sp." = Orthomylacris pluteus
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Xiphosura | |
"Euproops longispina n. sp." = Andersoniella longispina
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