Western Brick Company Pit (Loc. 23) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Otoe County, Nebraska (40.7° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 26.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Streptognathodus virgilicus conodont zone, Dover Limestone Member (Stotler Formation), Noginian (301.2 - 300.2 Ma)

• Richardson Subgroup, Mid Gzhelian, correlative to Noginian of Russian Platform.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. K. Pabian and W. J. Rushlau. 2002. Taphonomic Analysis and Systematic Descriptions of Some Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Crinoids from Southeastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas and Southwestern Iowa. Nebraska Geological Survey Paper Geological Survey Papers 20:1-45 [J. Alroy/B. Mamo/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124442: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Briony Mamo on 15.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Catacrinidae
Delocrinus vulgatus Moore and Plummer 1940 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Erisocrinidae
Erisocrinus typus Meek and Worthen 1865 Sea lily
classification uncertain