PBDB Collection

Prospect Hill, bluff above river south of Burlington (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Des Moines County, Iowa (40.8° N, 91.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 37.4° W)

When: Siphonodella praesulcata conodont zone, English River Formation (North Hill Group), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Called Yellow Sandstone within Chemung Group by Winchell.

•Called Chonopectus Sandstone within Burlington limestone by Weller.

•Called Chonopectus Sandstone within Kinderhook by Van Tuyl.

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•Now considered to be latest Fammenian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• Sandstone, yellowish, soft, friable, clayey.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Weller. 1900. Kinderhook faunal studies, II. The fauna of the Chonopectus sandstone at Burlington, Iowan. Academy of Science of St. Louis Transactions 10(3):57-129 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146537: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• I only entered gastropods, as the taxonomy is very outdated. Here is the rest of the fauna:

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•Lingula membranacea Win.

•Orbiculoidea capax (White)

•Schellwienella inaequalis (Hall)

•Chonetes illinoisensis Worthen

•Chonetes cf. geniculatus White

•Chonetes sp. undet.

•Chonopectus fischeri (N. and P.)

•Produetus curtirostris Win.

•Produetus mesicostalis Weller

•Produetus oooperensis Swallow

•Productus ovatus Hall

•Productella nummularis (Win.)

•Schizophoria sp.

•Paryphorhynchus transversum Weller

•Rhynchonella sp. undet.

•Eumetria altirostris (White)

•? Composita corpulenta (Win.)

•Spirifer subrotundus Hall

•Spirifer biplicatus Hall

•Syringothyris extenuatus (Hall)

•Reticularia eooperensis (Swallow)

•Fenestella sp. indet.

•Aviculopeeten tenuicostus Win.

•Aviculopecten caroli Win.

•Pterinopecten cf. laetus Hall

•Pernopecten sp. indet.

•Leiopteria spinalata (Will.)

•Avicula strigosa (White)

•Pteronites whitei (Win.)

•Mytilarca occidentalis (W. and W.)

•Mytilarca fibristriata (W. and W.)

•Goniophora jennae (Win.)

•Parallelodon oochlearis (Win.)

•Parallelodon modesta (Win.)

•Grammysia plena Hall

•Grammysia amygdalinus (Win.)

•Edmondia burlingtonensis (W. and W.)

•Edmondia quadrata (W. and W.)

•Edmondia aequimarginalis Win.

•Edmondia nitida Win.

•Edmondia jejunus (Win.)

•Sphenotus rigidus (W. and W.)

•Sphenotus bicarinatus (Win.)

•Sphenotus iowensis (Win.)

•Spherootus bicostatus Weller

•Spathella ventricosa (W. and W.)

•Cardiopsis megambonata Win.

•Schizodus iowensis Weller

•Schizodus burlin gtonensis Weller

•Cypricardinia sulcifera (Win.)

•Glossites elliptica (Win.)

•? Glossites burlingtonensis Weller

•Promacrus euneatus Hall

•? Posidonomya ambigua Win.

•Dentalium grandaevum Win.

•Orthoceras whitei Win.

•Orthoceras heterocinctum Win.

•Orthoceras indianense Hall

•Phragmoeeras expansum Win:

•Cyrtoceras unicorne Win.

•Agoniatites opimus (W. and W.)

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•Van Tuyl added:

•*Spirifer platynotus Weller

•*Pernopecten cf. cooperensis (Shuro.)

•*Nucula iowensis W. and W.

Show authors, comments, and common names

Gastropoda
Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae	"Bucanopsis deflectus" = Retispira deflectus, "Bellerophon bilabiatus" = Retispira bilabiatus, "Patellostium scriptiferus" = Patellilabia scriptiferus, "Bellerophon vinculatus" = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vinculatus, "Bellerophon panneus" = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) panneus "Bucanopsis deflectus" = Retispira deflectus Weller 1900 snail "Bellerophon bilabiatus" = Retispira bilabiatus White and Whitfield 1862 snail "Patellostium scriptiferus" = Patellilabia scriptiferus White 1862 snail "Bellerophon vinculatus" = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vinculatus White and Whitfield 1862 snail "Bellerophon panneus" = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) panneus White 1862 snail
Euomphalina - Platyceratidae	Platyschisma depressa, Platyschisma barrisi, Strophostylus bivolve Platyschisma depressa Weller 1900 snail Platyschisma barrisi Winchell 1863 snail Strophostylus bivolve White and Whitfield 1862 snail
Euomphalina -	"Phanerotinus paradoxus n. sp." = Serpulospira paradoxus "Phanerotinus paradoxus n. sp." = Serpulospira paradoxus Winchell 1863 snail
Euomphalina - Euomphalidae	"Straparollus angularis" = Euomphalus angularis, Straparollus ammon, Straparollus macromphalus "Straparollus angularis" = Euomphalus angularis Weller 1900 snail Straparollus ammon White and Whitfield 1862 snail Straparollus macromphalus Winchell 1863 snail
Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae	Loxonema "sp. indet." Loxonema "sp. indet." Phillips 1841 snail
Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae	"Macrocheilus pinguis n. sp." = Ianthinopsis pinguis, "Loxonema oligospira n. sp." = Leptoptygma oligospira "Macrocheilus pinguis n. sp." = Ianthinopsis pinguis Winchell 1863 snail "Loxonema oligospira n. sp." = Leptoptygma oligospira Winchell 1863 snail
Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae	Porcellia obliquinoda, Porcellia rectinoda n. sp., Porcellia crassinoda Porcellia obliquinoda White 1862 snail Porcellia rectinoda n. sp. Winchell 1863 snail Porcellia crassinoda White and Whitfield 1862 snail
Neritoidea - Naticopsidae	"Naticopsis depressus n. sp." = Naticopsis depressa "Naticopsis depressus n. sp." = Naticopsis depressa Winchell 1863 snail
Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae	"Murchisonia shumardiana n. sp." = Knightella shumardiana "Murchisonia shumardiana n. sp." = Knightella shumardiana Winchell 1863 snail
Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae	"Murchisonia quadricincta n. sp." = Stegocoelia quadricincta "Murchisonia quadricincta n. sp." = Stegocoelia quadricincta Winchell 1863 snail