Also known as ETE Locality 802

Where: Illinois (41.3° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 22.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, concretionary, sideritic mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R.D. Lacoe, Mr. Daniels in 1865-1892; reposited in the USNM

• Mr. Lacoe of Pittston, Pennsylvania, paid local collectors, including Mr. Daniels, to collect specimens from Mazon Creek area. In the plant-bearing- beds of the anthracite and bituminous regions Mr. Lacoe occasionally secured a single insect wing, and when the finds became sufficient to warrant digging for them he would specially detail a collector to examine the shales of a given locality.

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1885. New genera and species of fossil cockroaches, from the older American rocks. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 37:34-39 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21981: authorized by Conrad Labandeira, entered by Conrad Labandeira on 09.06.1998, edited by Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham