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
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Cochleosauridae
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Cochleosaurus sp.
Fritsch 1885
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"several skulls" (Reisz, 1972) | ||||||||||
Cochleosaurus florensis n. sp.
Rieppel 1980
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Rieppel 1980 | |||||||||
MCZ 4342, 4343 (holotype; skull), 4344, and 2773 (part) | ||||||||||
Eogyrinidae
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Carbonoherpeton carrolli n. gen., n. sp.
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Klembara 1985 | 1 individual | ||||||||
MCZ 2773 (Holotype) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Protorothyrididae
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Paleothyris acadiana n. gen., n. sp.
Carroll 1969
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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
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Clepsydrops sp.
Cope 1875
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Archaeothyris florensis n. gen., n. sp.
Reisz 1972
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Reisz 1972 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
MCZ 4079 (type), 4080-4087; RM 10056 (paratypes) | ||||||||||
Pelycosauria
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Echinerpeton intermedium n. gen., n. sp.
Reisz 1972
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Reisz 1972 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
MCZ 4090 (holotype), 4091-4094; RM 10057 (paratypes) | ||||||||||
Limnoscelidae
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Limnostygis relictus n. gen., n. sp.
Carroll 1967
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1 individual | |||||||||
MCZ 3034 (type) | ||||||||||
Myriapoda
- Xyloiulidae
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Xylobius sp.
Dawson 1860
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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, T. Liebrecht, M. Clapham, E. Dunne |
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] |