Where: Fulton County, Illinois (40.7° N, 90.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 5.8° S, 25.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Carbondale Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• unnamed black shale immediately overlying the coal (Springfield Coal Member 5) and immediately underlying the St. David Limestone Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and M. H. Nitecki. 1975. An unusually well preserved heteractinid sponge from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois and a possible classification and evolutionary scheme for the Heteractinida. Journal of Paleontology 49(2):329-339 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120999: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Heteractinida | |
Zangerlispongia richardsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Zangerlispongia richardsoni n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Nitecki 1975 |