Cotton Hill, Fayette County (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: West Virginia (38.1° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 21.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Pennsylvanic (lower Kanawha)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1913. A monograph of the terrestrial Palaeozoic Arachnida of North America. Transactions of the Connecticut Acadamy of Arts and Sciences 18:1-137 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146859: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida -
Areomartus ovatus n. gen. n. sp.
Areomartus ovatus n. gen. n. sp. Petrunkevitch 1913
USNM 6068 (formerly no. 1196)