Where: Monongolia County, West Virginia (39.7° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 14.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassville Shales Formation, Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)

• "...roof shales of the Waynesburg coal, or the very highest of the beds of the upper productive coal series, in the nomenclature of the first Pennsylvania survey, or the beds termed Permo-carboniferous by Professor Fontaine." Scudder, 1879

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Mr. Fontaine, Mr. White & R.D. Lacoe

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1879. Palaeozoic Cockroaches: A complete revision of the species of both worlds, with an essay toward their classification. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:23-134 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122604: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012, edited by Amy Delelli

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