Road ditch (Lost Branch Fm., Putnam Co., MO) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Putnam County, Missouri (40.5° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lost Branch Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• JA: all of the Desmoinesian collections in this paper are late Desmoinesian, see title of Swade 1985 in refs

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13(4):311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805