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 | |
Areomartus ovatus n. gen. n. sp.
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