Wilmington strip mine, Mazon Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Illinois (41.3° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 23.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Francis Creek Shale Member (Carbondale Formation), Westphalian D (311.4 - 306.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Illinois basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by John Herron; reposited in the MCZ

• Donated by Mr. F.O. Thompson

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1938. Two Carboniferous insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois. American Journal of Science 37(216):445-452 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114454: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Protorthoptera - Adeloneuridae
Adeloneura thompsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Adeloneura thompsoni n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter 1938 winged insect
Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
"Euproops thompsoni n. sp." = Euproops danae
"Euproops thompsoni n. sp." = Euproops danae Meek and Worthen 1865