Archimylacridae

  • PE 93302a Archimylacridae
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Mazon Creek fossil Cockroach PE 93302 [HS, F] Archimylacridae, Moscovian / Desmoinesian, Francis Creek Shale Member, United States of America, Illinois, Grundy, Mazon Creek Region
  • PE 93302b Archimylacridae
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Mazon Creek fossil Cockroach PE 93302 [HS, F] Archimylacridae, Moscovian / Desmoinesian, Francis Creek Shale Member, United States of America, Illinois, Grundy, Mazon Creek Region
  • Jim Benson fossil catalog book for 3004JB = PE 93302b Archimylacridae
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: This shows Jim Benson fossil catalog book and entry for 3004JB Mazon Creek fossil Cockroach PE 93302 [HS, F] Mazon Creek Region, this is the entry for the fossil cockroach that Jim Benson donated on April 30th 2022. It show 3004JB was collected Febraury 1996.
  • Jarmila Kukalova-Peck Letter to Jim Benson Page 1
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: This shows the first page of a letter that Jarmila Kukalova-Peck wrote to Jim Benson on May 18, 2001 about 4 Mazon Creek insects fossils in Jim Bensons collection that Kukalova-Peck had examined and described. #3 is the Mazon Creek Cockroach fossil Jim Benson donated to the Field Museum on April 30, 2022 Specimen PE 93302.
  • Jarmila Kukalova-Peck Letter to Jim Benson Page 2
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: This shows the second page of a letter that Jarmila Kukalova-Peck wrote to Jim Benson on May 18, 2001 about 4 Mazon Creek insects fossils in Jim Bensons collection that Kukalova-Peck had examined and described. #3 is the Mazon Creek Cockroach fossil Jim Benson donated to the Field Museum on April 30, 2022 Specimen PE 93302.
  • Jarmila Kukalova-Peck Illustration
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: This shows an unpublished illustration that Jarmila Kukalova-Peck sent to Jim Benson on May 18, 200. The illustration is of the #3 Mazon Creek fossil mentioned in her letter (the Archimylacridae cockroach with the long ovipositor), FMNH Specimen PE 93302 that Jim Benson donated to the Field Museum on April 30, 2022.
Catalog Number: PE 93302
Taxonomic Name: Archimylacridae
FM Catalog: Fossil Invertebrates
Object Kind: Hand Specimen
Lot count: 1
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattoptera
Family: Archimylacridae
Period: Pennsylvanian
Earliest Epoch: Middle Pennsylvanian
Earliest Age: Moscovian / Desmoinesian
Formation: Carbondale
Morphology: part and counterpart of whole Insect (cockroach) with head and long ovipositor.
Lithology: Siderite nodule
Member: Francis Creek Shale
Coordinates Available?: No
Region/Area: Mazon Creek Region
Country: United States of America
State/Province/Territory: Illinois
County: Grundy
EMu IRN: 4488872
Occurrence ID: fc8fac16-7d06-4d26-a5dd-d75018034959

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