Roadcut SE of East Peru (Swope Fm., Madison Co., IA) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Madison County, Iowa (41.2° N, 93.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 26.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hushpuckney Shale Member (Swope Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

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 128: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
Plicochonetes sp. Paeckelmann 1930
originally entered as "Pliochonetes sp."
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872