West Bay, Parrsboro: Westphalian A, Canada
collected by Henry M. Ami 1899
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Megasecoptera
- Brodiopteridae
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Brodioptera cumberlandensis n. gen., n. sp.
Copeland 1957
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| GSC 10390 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nova Scotia |
| Coordinates: | 45.4° North, 64.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.3° South, 7.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Bashkirian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian A | ||
| Age range of interval: | 318.8 - 317 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Cumberland | Formation: | Joggins |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" | ||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: Maritimes basin; major rift-valley system developed after the Acadian orogeny | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Henry M. Ami | Collection dates: | 1899 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 122485 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2011-12-30 17:41:11 | Last modified: | 2018-02-09 16:25:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-12-30 17:41:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43184. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 39044 | F. M. Carpenter. 1963. Studies on North American Carboniferous insects. 2. The genus Brodioptera, from the Maritime Provinces, Canada. Psyche 70(1):59-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |