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
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion, replaced with siderite
Collected by L. A. Lasco
Primary reference: A. Mann and H. C. Maddin. 2019. Diabloroter bolti, a short-bodied recumbirostran ‘microsaur’ from the Francis Creek Shale, Mazon Creek, Illinois. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-12 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 201784: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 29.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Diabloroter bolti n. gen. n. sp.
Diabloroter bolti n. gen. n. sp. Mann and Maddin 2019 amniote ACFGM V-1634 (holotype), a near-complete cranial and postcranial skeleton, preserved only in dorsal aspect. Additionally, two latex peels and a plaster cast of the specimen in dorsal aspect exist at the FMNH, under the single number of FMNH PR 847.
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