Pontardawe, Graigola vein (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Graigola vein, Tenuis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified shale

• South Wales coalfield, deposited in Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

• Purchased W.D. Ware, 1933

Primary reference: F. S. Wallis. 1939. New blattoid insects from the South Wales coalfield. Geological Magazine 76:23-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162203: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Soomylacris obesa, Orthomylacris hastata n. sp.
Soomylacris obesa Bolton 1939 cockroach
BMNH In. 31391
Orthomylacris hastata n. sp. Bolton 1939 cockroach
BMNH In. 31390