Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.3° N, 60.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 3.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 306.9 Ma)
• Sydney Coalfield considered to range from Westphalian C to Cantabrian in age (Lonchopteris eschweileriana and L. oblique zones).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by R. Brown
• Repository: possibly McGill University
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1875. Two new fossil cockroaches from the Carboniferous of Cape Breton. The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science 7:271-272 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153634: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.01.2014, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
Insecta | |
"Blattina heeri n. sp." = Orthomylacris heeri, Blattina bretonensis n. sp.
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