Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.3° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 16.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Unit B Member (San Giorgio Formation), Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
• Stephanian age based on plant species and sporomorphs. Fondi (1980) proposed a Westphalian D age based on tetrapod footprints. From the upper third of Unit B.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, coalified
Collected by Giovanni Manai
• Repository: Palaeontological Museum of Carbonia, Sardinia
Primary reference: M. Del Rio, G. L. Pillola, and F. Muntoni. 2002. The Upper Carboniferous of the San Giorgio basin. Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 1:223-229 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153483: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Anthracomartus voelkelianus2 Karsch 1882 | |
Myriapoda | |
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Insecta | |
Blattodea indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach |