PBDB Collection

Mazon Creek (Illinois State Museum collection) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Grundy County, Illinois (41.3° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 23.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Francis Creek Shale Member (Carbondale Formation), Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

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

• Illinois basin

• ironstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Illinois State Museum. Many specimens are from a large collection of nodules collected by George Langford Sr. and George Langford Jr.

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1943. Carboniferous insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois. Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers 3(1):9-24 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133734: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2012, edited by Lindy Edwards

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
Trigonotarbida - Eophrynidae	Pleophrynus ensifer n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Pleophrynus ensifer n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Petrunkevitch 1945 ISM 14873
Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae	Architarbus rotundatus⁴, Orthotarbus robustus n. sp.⁴, Discotarbus deplanatus⁴, Paratarbus carbonarius n. gen. n. sp.⁴, Ootarbus pulcher n. gen. n. sp.⁴, Ootarbus ovatus n. sp.⁴ Architarbus rotundatus⁴ Scudder 1868 phalangiotarbid ISM 14871 Orthotarbus robustus n. sp.⁴ Petrunkevitch 1945 phalangiotarbid ISM 14863, 14865, 14867, 14874, 14878 Discotarbus deplanatus⁴ Petrunkevitch 1913 phalangiotarbid ISM 14869 Paratarbus carbonarius n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Petrunkevitch 1945 phalangiotarbid ISM 14864 Ootarbus pulcher n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Petrunkevitch 1945 phalangiotarbid ISM 14861, 14868, 14870 Ootarbus ovatus n. sp.⁴ Petrunkevitch 1945 phalangiotarbid ISM 14866
Ricinulei - Curculioididae	"Curculioides gracilis n. sp." = Amarixys gracilis⁴ "Curculioides gracilis n. sp." = Amarixys gracilis⁴ Petrunkevitch 1945 hooded tickspider ISM 14862 (Langford collection)
Malacostraca
Palaeocaridacea - Palaeocarididae	Palaeocaris typus³ Palaeocaris typus³ Meek and Worthen 1865 ISM 14833, 14842, 14845, 14846 14849
Myriapoda
Pleurojulida - Pleurojulidae	Pleurojulus cf. biornatus⁵ Pleurojulus cf. biornatus⁵ Fritsch 1899 millipede ISM 14855
Insecta
Dicondylia - Syntonopteridae	Lithoneura mirifica n. sp., Syntonoptera schucherti Lithoneura mirifica n. sp. Carpenter 1943 winged insect ISM 14880 (Langford collection) Syntonoptera schucherti Handlirsch 1911 winged insect ISM 14881 (Langford collection)
Meganisoptera -	Dragonympha srokai n. gen. n. sp.¹ Dragonympha srokai n. gen. n. sp.¹ Kukalova-Peck 2009 griffinfly ISM 004 ab
Palaeodictyoptera - Homoiopteridae	Thesoneura americana n. gen. n. sp. Thesoneura americana n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter 1943 winged insect ISM 14876 (Langford collection)
Paoliida - Anthracoptilidae	Adiphlebia lacoana² Adiphlebia lacoana² Scudder 1885 winged insect ISM 14886a, 14890
Cnemidolestodea - Parmapteridae	Heterologus langfordorum n. gen. n. sp. Heterologus langfordorum n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter 1943 winged insect ISM 14879 (Langford collection)
Protorthoptera - Eucaenidae	"Teneopteron mirabile n. gen. n. sp." = Eucaenus ovalis "Teneopteron mirabile n. gen. n. sp." = Eucaenus ovalis Scudder 1885 winged insect ISM 14887

¹Kukalova-Peck 2009; ²Kukalová-Peck and Beutel 2012; ³Perrier et al. 2006; ⁴Petrunkevitch 1945; ⁵Wilson and Hannibal 2005