Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.2° N, 66.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 8.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lancaster Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Plant fossils indicate an early Westphalian B age (Stopes, 1914; Hayes and Howell, 1937; Bell, 1944b) for the Lancaster Formation at Saint John, now considered mid-upper Langsettian (Falcon-Lang & Miller, 2007).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by C.F. Hartt in 1862

Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1867. On some remains of Palaeozoic insects recently discovered in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Canadian Naturalist 3:202-206 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122728: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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