GSC 25611, Bayview No. 8 mine, Joggins (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.7° N, 64.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 7.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cumberland Group, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Maritimes basin; major rift-valley system developed after the Acadian orogeny

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M.J. Copeland in 1950; 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 155665: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Chilognatha - Xyloiulidae
"Xylobius sigillariae" = Xyloiulus sigillariae
"Xylobius sigillariae" = Xyloiulus sigillariae Dawson 1860 millipede
GSC 12788
 Chilognatha -
Archiulus xylobioides Scudder 1868 millipede