Sunspot Mine Shrimp (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Fulton County, Illinois (40.3° N, 90.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 25.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Francis Creek Shale Member (Carbondale Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; concretionary shale

• "Found in ironstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion, replaced with siderite

Primary reference: F. R. Schram. 1976. Some Notes on Pennsylvanian Crustaceans In the Illinois Basin. Fieldiana Geology 35:21-28 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details

PaleoDB collection 157801: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 04.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Euphausiacea - Anthracophausiidae
Anthracophausia ingelsorum