BB 70. Split-six Buffalo Creek, Bayard: Moscovian, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Mylacridae
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Archimylacridae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 79.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.5° South, 19.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Moscovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 315.2 - 307 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Allegheny | Member: | Split Six Coal | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The "Split-six" coal is of Allegheny age, below the Kittanning coals…This is near the dividing line between the Allegheny and the Conemaugh..." Cockerell, 1927 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported | ||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: Appalachian foreland basin | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Kept in the Maryland Geological Survey | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 124497 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-02-16 18:09:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-02-16 18:09:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40173. | T. D. A. Cockerell. 1927. The Carboniferous Insects of Maryland. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 19:385-416 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham] |