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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 |