Osceola North Roadcut, Burlington Limestone, Sample 17 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: St. Clair County, Missouri (38.1° N, 93.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 39.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burlington Limestone Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• This section begins within the Sedalia and proceeds through the North-view, Pierson, and Burlington.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Unit 13: Gray, medium-grained, dolomitic crinoidal-bryozoan wackestone/packstone, stylolitic, scattered chert bands and nodules. Sample 17 - 13.3 to 13.8 ft above base.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. Collinson, J. W. Baxter, R. D. Norby, H. R. Lane, and P. D. Brenckle. 1981. Mississippian Stratotypes. International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy Working Group on the Mississippian of the U.S.A. in Conjuction with the 15th Annual Meeting of the North Central Section G.S.A 1-56 [T. Olszewski/K. Nell/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12860: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Katrina Nell on 01.01.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Only microfossils identified.
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Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
Palaeospiroplectammina aff. parva