Bank of Mississippi river, near Alton (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Madison County, Illinois (38.9° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 35.1° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Taphrognathus varians conodont zone, Salem Formation, Meramecian (345.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Hall. 1856. Description of new species of fossils from the Carboniferous limestones of Indiana and Illinois. Transactions of the Albany Institute 4:1-36 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129929: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Only gastropods and rostroconchs entered so far; updated taxonomic data needed before other groups can be entered.
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Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotomaria rotundata" = Gosseletina subglobosa
"Pleurotomaria rotundata" = Gosseletina subglobosa Miller 1877 snail | |
"Bellerophon sublaevis" = Bellerophon spergensis
"Bellerophon sublaevis" = Bellerophon spergensis Gordon and Yochelson 1983 snail | |
"Holopea proutana" = Anematina proutana
"Holopea proutana" = Anematina proutana Hall 1856 snail | |
"Pleurotomaria leavenworthana" = Amaurotoma leavenworthana
"Pleurotomaria leavenworthana" = Amaurotoma leavenworthana Hall 1856 snail | |
"Natica carleyana" = Naticopsis carleyana
"Natica carleyana" = Naticopsis carleyana Hall 1856 snail | |
Rostroconchia | |
"Conocardium prattenanum n. sp." = Hoarepora prattenanum
"Conocardium prattenanum n. sp." = Hoarepora prattenanum Hall 1856 |