Mazon Creek (Pike collection) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Grundy County, Illinois (41.3° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 23.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-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

Reposited in the YPM

• Repository: collection of Mr. J.W. Pike of Vineland, N.J. (later donated to YPM)

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1882. A new and unusually perfect Carboniferous cockroach from Mazon Creek, Ill. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 21:391-396 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154202: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia flabellata n. sp., Euphoberia armigera, Acantherpestes major
Euphoberia flabellata n. sp. Scudder 1882 millipede
USNM 38018
Euphoberia armigera Meek and Worthen 1868 millipede
Acantherpestes major Meek and Worthen 1868 millipede
Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Etoblattina mazona n. sp." = Asemoblatta mazona
"Etoblattina mazona n. sp." = Asemoblatta mazona Scudder 1882 cockroach
YPM 221077