Dominion Coal Co. strip mine No. 7: Westphalian C - Westphalian D, Canada
collected by A.S. Romer 1956

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Eogyrinidae
Carbonoherpeton carrolli n. gen., n. sp.
Klembara 1985 1 individual
MCZ 2773 (Holotype)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cochleosauridae
Cochleosaurus sp. Fritsch 1885
"several skulls" (Reisz, 1972)
Cochleosaurus florensis n. sp. Rieppel 1980
Rieppel 1980
MCZ 4342, 4343 (holotype; skull), 4344, and 2773 (part)
Reptilia - Protorothyrididae
Paleothyris acadiana n. gen., n. sp. Carroll 1969
Carroll 1969 18 specimens
MCZ 3481 (holotype), 3472-3477, 3482-3492 (paratypes); specimen no. 3484 is possibly not P. acadiana but Archaeothyris florensis (Modesto, 2006, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 146)
Ophiacodontidae
Archaeothyris florensis n. gen., n. sp. Reisz 1972
Reisz 1972 10 specimens
MCZ 4079 (type), 4080-4087; RM 10056 (paratypes)
Clepsydrops sp. Cope 1875
Pelycosauria
Echinerpeton intermedium n. gen., n. sp. Reisz 1972
Reisz 1972 6 specimens
MCZ 4090 (holotype), 4091-4094; RM 10057 (paratypes)
Limnoscelidae
Limnostygis relictus n. gen., n. sp. Carroll 1967
1 individual
MCZ 3034 (type)
Myriapoda - Xyloiulidae
Xylobius sp. Dawson 1860
Baird 1958 3 specimens
replaced by Xyloiulus
MCZ 5448, 5449, 5450
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nova Scotia County:Cape Breton Island
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 60.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.5° South, 3.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Moscovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
Key time interval:Westphalian C - Westphalian D
Age range of interval:314.60000 - 307.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Morien
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "... above the Lloyd Cove (Lower Bonar) coal of the Morien group."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:mire/swamp Tectonic setting:intermontane basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MCZ
Collectors:A.S. Romer Collection dates:1956
Metadata
Also known as:Sydney coal field; Florence, Cape Breton
Database number:80111
Authorizer:R. Reisz, J. Mueller, M. Clapham, R. Butler Enterer:R. Reisz, M. Clapham, E. Dunne, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht
Created:2008-04-04 13:01:09 Last modified:2009-01-13 19:34:10
Access level:the public Released:2008-04-04 13:01:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26895. R. L. Carroll. 1967. A Limnoscelid Reptile from the Middle Pennsylvanian. Journal of Paleontology 41(5):1256-1261 [R. Reisz/D. Mazierski]

Secondary references:

66417 D. Baird. 1958. New records of Paleozoic diplopod Myriapoda. Journal of Paleontology 32:239-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
28609 R. L. Carroll. 1969. A Middle Pennsylvanian captorhinomorph, and the interrelationships of primitive reptiles. Journal of Paleontology 43(1):151-170 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]
60224 J. Klembara. 1985. A new embolomerous amphibian (Anthracosauria) from the Upper Carboniferous of Florence, Nova Scotia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5:293-302 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]
28957 R. R. Reisz. 1972. Pelycosaurian Reptiles from the Middle Pennsylvanian of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144(2):27-60 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
58037 O. Rieppel. 1980. The edopoid amphibian Cochleosaurus from the middle Pennsylvanian of Nova Scotia. Palaeontology 23:143-150 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]