Morris, Mazon Creek (Kukalova-Peck Carleton coll) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Grundy County, Illinois (41.3° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Francis Creek Member (Carbondale Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Westphalian C/D

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, nodular, sideritic mudstone

• Illinois basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Jarmila Kukalová-Peck

Primary reference: W. Zessin and C. Brauckmann. 2010. Aulertupus tembrocki n. gen. et sp. (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Aulertupidae n. fam.) aus dem Ober-Karbon von Mazon Creek, Illinois (USA). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 13(2):36-43 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102530: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Syntonopteridae
Lithoneura piecko n. sp.1
Lithoneura piecko n. sp.1 Kukalová-Peck 1985 winged insect
 Meganisoptera - Aulertupidae
Aulertupus tembrocki n. gen. n. sp.
Aulertupus tembrocki n. gen. n. sp. Zessin and Brauckmann 2010 griffinfly
 Paoliida - Anthracoptilidae
Adiphlebia lacoana2
Adiphlebia lacoana2 Scudder 1885 winged insect
Piecko specimen 1/2011a,b
1Kukalová-Peck 1985; 2Kukalová-Peck and Beutel 2012