Illinois Central Railroad, Grand Junction (Eocene of the United States)

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

• The clay is light gray in color, somewhat siliceous, and contains numerous pink plant impressions

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
 Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
"Mastotermes wheeleri n. sp." = Blattotermes wheeleri
"Mastotermes wheeleri n. sp." = Blattotermes wheeleri Collins 1925 termite