Mazon Creek (Bliss 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 (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

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

• Illinois basin
• ironstone concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

• Repository: collection of Mr. Bliss

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1882. Archipolypoda, a subordinal type of spined myriapods from the Carboniferous formation. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:143-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155943: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia armigera, Euphoberia anguilla
Euphoberia armigera Meek and Worthen 1868 millipede
Euphoberia anguilla Scudder 1882 millipede
USNM PAL263917 (Scudder 131)