Where: Pennsylvania (41.2° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 19.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pottsville Formation, Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)
• 10 feet below top of Conoquenessing Sandstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collected by Harvey Bassler in 1916; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1918. New species of North American fossil beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54:301-311 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140161: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Blattodea indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach pronotum "probably A. reducta"; fragment of apparently new genus
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Atimoblatta reducta n. sp.
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