Where: Tennessee (35.0° N, 89.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 74.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wilcox Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• Holly Springs or middle Wilcox age (Lower Eocene)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by R.L. Collins in Summer, 1924
Primary reference: R. L. Collins. 1925. A lower Eocene termite from Tennessee. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 9(53):406-410 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117258: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Mastotermes wheeleri n. sp." = Blattotermes wheeleri
"Mastotermes wheeleri n. sp." = Blattotermes wheeleri Collins 1925 termite |