Also known as Sydney coal field; Florence, Cape Breton
Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.3° N, 60.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 3.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morien Group, Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.5 Ma)
• "... above the Lloyd Cove (Lower Bonar) coal of the Morien group."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collected by A.S. Romer in 1956; reposited in the MCZ
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: R. L. Carroll. 1967. A Limnoscelid Reptile from the Middle Pennsylvanian. Journal of Paleontology 41(5):1256-1261 [R. Reisz/D. Mazierski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80111: authorized by Robert Reisz, entered by Robert Reisz on 04.04.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Emma Dunne and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
Carbonoherpeton carrolli n. gen. n. sp.3
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| Amphibia | |
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Cochleosaurus florensis n. sp.5 Rieppel 1980 tetrapod MCZ 4342, 4343 (holotype; skull), 4344, and 2773 (part)
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| Osteichthyes | |
Limnostygis relictus n. gen. n. sp.
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| Reptilia | |
Paleothyris acadiana n. gen. n. sp.2
Paleothyris acadiana n. gen. n. sp.2 Carroll 1969 eureptile MCZ 3481 (holotype), 3472-3477, 3482-3492 (paratypes); specimen no. 3484 is possibly not P. acadiana but Archaeothyris florensis (Modesto, 2006, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 146)
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| Osteichthyes | |
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Archaeothyris florensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Reisz 1972 ophiacodont MCZ 4079 (type), 4080-4087; RM 10056 (paratypes)
Clepsydrops sp. Cope 1875 ophiacodont | |
Echinerpeton intermedium n. gen. n. sp.4
Echinerpeton intermedium n. gen. n. sp.4 Reisz 1972 pelycosaur MCZ 4090 (holotype), 4091-4094; RM 10057 (paratypes)
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| Myriapoda | |
"Xylobius sp." = Xyloiulus1
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