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The stratigraphical potential of blattodean insects from the late Carboniferous of southern Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2007

ED A. JARZEMBOWSKI
Affiliation:
Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, St Faith's St, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LH & SHES, Reading University, UK
JÖRG W. SCHNEIDER
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, Institute of Geology, Freiberg University, Bernhard-von-Cotta Street 2, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany

Abstract

The Blattodea (cockroaches sensu lato or roachoids) from the southern coalfields of the UK are reviewed or examined, especially species occurring in more than one coal basin including Mylacris abrupta (Bolton, 1930) comb. nov., and undescribed material from Writhlington (Somerset). It is proposed that a derived mylacrid MylacrisSooblatta assemblage is used to extend the latest Westphalian and earliest Stephanian insect zonation from the continent to southern Britain, thus augmenting the European Pennsylvanian scheme.

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Original Article
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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