Mazon Creek, Essex fauna: Moscovian, Illinois
collected by Richardson and Johnson 1950 1960
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Hoplostraca
- Sairocarididae
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Kellibrooksia macrogaster n. gen., n. sp.
Schram 1973
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Malacostraca
- Stomatopoda
- Tyrannophontidae
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Tyrannophontes theridion n. gen., n. sp.
Schram 1969
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Malacostraca
- Aeschronectida
- Kallidecthidae
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Kallidecthes richardsoni n. gen., n. sp.
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Malacostraca
- Isopoda
- Palaeophreatoicidae
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Hesslerella shermani n. gen., n. sp.
Schram 1970
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Schram 1974 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Illinois | County: | Grundy/Will |
| Coordinates: | 41.3° North, 88.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.2° South, 23.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Moscovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 315.2 - 307 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Carbondale | Member: | Francis Creek Shale | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Not listed in reference; using standard Mazon Creek details; presumably from same sources as Richardson (1956) and Johnson and Richardson (1966, 1968, 1969) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty mudstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | nodular siderite | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Siderite concretions. Not listed in reference; using standard Mazon Creek details; presumably from same sources as Richardson (1956) and Johnson and Richardson (1966, 1968, 1969) | |||
| Environment: | deltaic indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,concretion,soft parts,replaced with other |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | species names,ichnofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | FMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Richardson and Johnson | Collection dates: | 1950s and 1960s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 230306 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Novack-Gottshall | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall |
| Modifier: | P. Novack-Gottshall | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2023-06-07 14:59:40 | Last modified: | 2023-06-07 15:41:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2023-06-07 14:59:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 84991. | F.R. Schram. 1969. Some Middle Pennsylvanian Hoplocarida (Crustacea) and their phylogenetic significance. Fieldiana Geology 12:235-289 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall] |
Secondary references:
| 84992 | F.R. Schram. 1973. On some phyllocarids and the origin of the Hoplocarida. Fieldiana Geology 26(2):77-94 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall] | |
| 84994 | F.R. Schram. 1974. Late Paleozoic Peracarida of North America. Fieldiana Geology 33:95-124 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall] |