Silver Spring, East Providence (Scholfield coll) (Carboniferous to of the United States)
Where: Rhode Island (41.8° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 11.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Allegheny Formation, Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
• Narragansett rift basin
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Hebert Scholfield
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1893. Insect fauna of the Rhode Island coal field. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 101:1-21 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 112704: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Insecta | |
Etoblattina sp. Scudder 1879 cockroach USNM 38072 (Genus ? areolata n. sp. in Handlirsch 1920; "Discoblatta areolata Handlirsch" in Durden, 1984)
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"Gerablattina fraterna n. sp." = Xenoblatta fraterna
"Gerablattina fraterna n. sp." = Xenoblatta fraterna Scudder 1893 winged insect | |
"Etoblattina scholfieldi n. sp." = Discoblatta scholfieldi
"Etoblattina scholfieldi n. sp." = Discoblatta scholfieldi Scudder 1893 winged insect |