Pit 6, Coal City, Mazon Creek (Herdina coll) (Carboniferous of the United States)

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 (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous mudstone

• Illinois basin
• ironstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collected by Jerry Herdina

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter and E. S. Richardson. 1971. Additional insects in Pennsylvanian concretions from Illinois. Psyche 78:267-295 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122539: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Spilapteridae
Spilaptera americana n. sp.
Spilaptera americana n. sp. Carpenter and Richardson 1971 winged insect
H463, H459