GSC 514, Morien Bay (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.1° N, 59.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 2.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sydney Mines Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Horizon of Mullins Seam, Morien Gp.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by W.A. Bell in 1920; 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 155670: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Archimylacris morienensis n. sp." = Trilophomylacris moriensis
"Archimylacris morienensis n. sp." = Trilophomylacris moriensis Copeland 1957 cockroach
GSC 10394