Half mile south of Black Point (Carboniferous to of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.7° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° S, 11.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mabou Group, Brigantian to Brigantian (336.0 - 323.2 Ma)

• Stratigraphic position given as "Canso? group." The Cansu group has been renamed Mabou Group and ranges in age from Late Visean to Namurian A.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: M. J. Copeland. 1957. The arthropod fauna of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Maritime Provinces. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 286:1-110 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155663: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae
Anthracomartus sp. Karsch 1882
GSC 12786