GSC 2954, Thorburn borehole, 143 feet depth (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.6° N, 62.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 5.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thorburn Member (Stellarton Formation), Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• Marsh Brook Oil-Shale Mb, middle Thorburn Fm, Stellarton Gp.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1929; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: core

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 155675: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Etoblattina (Etoblattina) stellartonensis Durden 1972 cockroach
GSC 12847a-e