Aspinwall (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 16.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Connemaugh Group, Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Appalachian foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Alfred Emerson; reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1934. Carboniferous insects from Pennsylvania in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 22:323-341 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144528: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 10.05.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Stenomylacris emersoni n. sp." = Mesitoblatta emersoni
"Stenomylacris emersoni n. sp." = Mesitoblatta emersoni Carpenter 1934 cockroach
MCZ 3347
 Blattodea - Poroblattinidae
"Acmaeoblatta carbonaria n. sp." = Poroblattina parvula
"Acmaeoblatta carbonaria n. sp." = Poroblattina parvula Goldenberg 1869 cockroach
MCZ 3348
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
Syscioblatta allegheniensis n. sp.
Syscioblatta allegheniensis n. sp. Carpenter 1934 winged insect
MCZ 3346