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

Where: Grundy County, Illinois (41.3° N, 88.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.9° S, 23.5° W (Wright 2013)

• 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

Collection methods: Repository: collection of A.H. Worthen

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1882. Archipolypoda, a subordinal type of spined myriapods from the Carboniferous formation. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:143-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155944: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
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Eileticus anthracinus n. gen. n. sp.
Eileticus anthracinus n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1882
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia armigera
Euphoberia armigera Meek and Worthen 1868 millipede