George Howell strip pit (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Henry County, Missouri (38.5° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 29.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cherokee Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Just above the Mulky Coal (which is the uppermost part of the Cherokee Shale).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.B. Owen; reposited in the SUI

• Repository: private collection of John Britts Owen (possibly now at SUI)

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and J.B. Owen. 1939. An ammonoid fauna from the lower Pennsylvanian Cherokee Formation of Missouri. Journal of Paleontology 13(2):141-162 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170349: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites welleri Smith 1903 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Bisatoceratidae
Bisatoceras greenei Miller and Owen 1939 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Gonioloboceratidae
"Gonioloboceras eliasi n. sp." = Gonioloboceratoides eliasi
"Gonioloboceras eliasi n. sp." = Gonioloboceratoides eliasi Miller and Owen 1939 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceras politum Shumard 1858 ammonite