Clinton: Westphalian D, Missouri
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Mylacridae
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Paromylacris clintoniana n. sp.
Scudder 1895
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Hemimylacris clintoniana | ||||||||||
| Coll Lacoe 2151 a (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Archimylacridae
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Anthracoblattina americana n. sp.
Scudder 1895
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Trilophomylacris americana | ||||||||||
| Coll Lacoe 2137a (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Missouri |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 93.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.1° South, 28.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian D | ||
| Age range of interval: | 309.80000 - 307.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Jordan Coal | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "...from coal bank…belonging to the very lowest productive coal-measures, found within 50 feet of their extreme base." Scudder, 1895 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | coal | ||
| Environment: | estuary/bay | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
| Geology comments: Craton interior | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: Specimens in the collection of R.D. Lacoe according to Scudder, 1895 now likely in the USNM | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 125697 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-03-16 16:50:29 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-16 16:50:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40799. | S. H. Scudder. 1895. Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 124:1-176 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] |