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

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Etoblattina sp. Scudder 1879 cockroach
USNM 38072 (Genus ? areolata n. sp. in Handlirsch 1920; "Discoblatta areolata Handlirsch" in Durden, 1984)
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
"Gerablattina fraterna n. sp." = Xenoblatta fraterna
"Gerablattina fraterna n. sp." = Xenoblatta fraterna Scudder 1893 winged insect
 Dicondylia - Xenoblattidae
"Etoblattina scholfieldi n. sp." = Discoblatta scholfieldi
"Etoblattina scholfieldi n. sp." = Discoblatta scholfieldi Scudder 1893 winged insect