Where: Romania (45.3° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° S, 28.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian B (301.5 - 301.0 Ma)

• Mine dump received material from roof shales from more than one coal seam prior to closure (c. 1950) but mining records not available. Generally at Secu, the coal measures are considered to date from the Stephanian B; they overlie a locally outcropping basal conglomerate dated to the Asturian. The abundance of pecopterids, how ever, coupled with rare lycophytes on the tip and the plant species list point to an ear lier (Cantabrian?) date (Dr C. Cleal, pers. comm.). This is consistent with the association of a Pecopteris species.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified, micaceous, gray, silty mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Palaeontology Laboratory, University of Bucharest

Primary reference: E. A. Jarzembowski. 2008. The oldest insect from Romania: a new Carboniferous blattodean. Studia Geologica Polonica 129:43-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116118: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.09.2011

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