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Fossil specimen : NMW 27.177.G14 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Insecta

      Order Blattodea

Fossil Name Sooblatta deanensis (Scudder, 1885)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Sooblatta deanensis (Scudder, 1885) – See Schneider (1983)

Phylomylacris membranacea Bolton, 1930 – See Bolton (1930): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. 27.177.G14
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Davies, D.
Held By Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Logo Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Mountain Colliery, Gorseinon, Swanseas
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Swansea Four Foot Seam, Upper Coal Measures
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Substage D (Carboniferous Period) (307 – 309 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age ]

References
References

Bolton, H. 1930. Fossil insects of the South Wales Coalfield. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 86, 9-49. p.33, text-fig.11,pl.4, fig.3.

Schneider, J. 1983. Die Blattodea (Insecta) des Palaeozoikums.Teil 1: Systematik, Oekologie und Biostratigraphie. Freiberger Forschungshefte, Vol. C382, 106–46. p. 112, 116 Phylomylacris membranacea Bolton, 1930 synonymized with Sooblatta deanensis (Scudder 1885)

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