Where: Effingham County, Illinois (39.1° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 22.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Shale Member (Mattoon Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Unit 8, 85-140 cm thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. H. Scheihing and R. L. Langenheim, Jr. 1980. Brachiopods of the suborder Strophomenidina from the Shumway Cyclothem, Mattoon Formation, Virgilian of Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 54(5):1017-1034 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49832: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.04.2005

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