Mountain Colliery, Gorseinon (Five-Feet Seam) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Shale over the Five-Feet Seam

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified shale

• South Wales coalfield, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by D. Davies

• Repository: National Museum of Wales

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1930. Fossil insects of the south Wales coalfield. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 86:9-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151388: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
"Soomylacris northi n. sp." = Orthomylacris northi
"Soomylacris northi n. sp." = Orthomylacris northi Bolton 1930 cockroach
NMW 27,177 G 35