Coal City-Braidwood strip mines (McLuckie coll) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Mazon Creek

Where: Illinois (41.3° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 23.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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, ferruginous mudstone

• Illinois basin
• ironstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collected by Mrs. McLuckie; reposited in the USNM

• Not clear if all specimens were donated to USNM

Primary reference: E. S. Richardson. 1956. Pennsylvanian Invertebrates of the Mazon Creek Area, Illinois. Fieldiana: Geology 12(2):3-76 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122534: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Spilapteridae
Mcluckiepteron luciae n. gen. n. sp.
Mcluckiepteron luciae n. gen. n. sp. Richardson 1956 winged insect
Arachnida
 Ricinulei - Curculioididae
Curculioides mcluckiei n. sp. Selden 1992 hooded tickspider
USNM 440519