Pit 11, Braidwood, Mazon Creek (Morreau coll) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Illinois (41.2° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° 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 Lanny Morreau

• Repository: collection of Lanny Morreau, Normal, Illinois

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter and E. S. Richardson. 1976. Structure and relationships of the Upper Carboniferous insect, Eucaenus ovalis (Protorthoptera: Eucaenidae). Psyche 83:223-242 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163065: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Protorthoptera - Eucaenidae
Eucaenus ovalis Scudder 1885 winged insect