Where: Illinois (40.0° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 23.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Energy Shale Member (Carbondale Formation), Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, concretionary, sideritic shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by W.F.E. Gurley
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. A Carboniferous Termes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 19:300-301 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122524: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Termes contusus n. sp." = Miamia bronsoni, "Petromartus indistinctus n. gen. n. sp." = Miamia bronsoni1
"Termes contusus n. sp." = Miamia bronsoni Dana 1864 winged insect
"Petromartus indistinctus n. gen. n. sp." = Miamia bronsoni1 Dana 1864 winged insect FMNH 9243 (same locality as Termes contusus, according to Melander)
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"Mylacris mansfieldi" = Orthomylacris mansfieldi2
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