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

Where: Grundy County, Illinois (41.3° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 23.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Francis Creek Shale Member (Carbondale Formation), Westphalian D (311.4 - 306.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous mudstone

• Illinois basin
• ironstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the YPM

• Repository: collection of Mr. J.W. Pike of Vineland, N.J. (later donated to YPM)

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1882. A new and unusually perfect Carboniferous cockroach from Mazon Creek, Ill. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 21:391-396 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154202: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Etoblattina mazona n. sp." = Asemoblatta mazona
"Etoblattina mazona n. sp." = Asemoblatta mazona Scudder 1882 cockroach
YPM 221077
Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia flabellata n. sp. Scudder 1882 millipede
USNM 38018
Euphoberia armigera Meek and Worthen 1868 millipede
Acantherpestes major Meek and Worthen 1868 millipede