Where: Henry County, Missouri (38.5° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 29.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cherokee Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Just above the Mulky Coal (which is the uppermost part of the Cherokee Shale).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.B. Owen; reposited in the SUI
• Repository: private collection of John Britts Owen (possibly now at SUI)
Primary reference: A. K. Miller and J.B. Owen. 1939. An ammonoid fauna from the lower Pennsylvanian Cherokee Formation of Missouri. Journal of Paleontology 13(2):141-162 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 170341: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Bactrites sp. Sandberger 1843 | |
"Imitoceras cherokeense n. sp." = Maximites cherokeensis
"Imitoceras cherokeense n. sp." = Maximites cherokeensis Miller and Owen 1939 ammonite | |
Glaphyrites welleri Smith 1903 ammonite | |
"Neoglyphioceras bellilineatum" = Owenoceras bellilineatum
"Neoglyphioceras bellilineatum" = Owenoceras bellilineatum Miller and Owen 1939 ammonite | |
Bisatoceras greenei Miller and Owen 1939 ammonite | |
Dimorphoceras politum Shumard 1858 ammonite |