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: Mattoon Formation, Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• Unit 6, 0-23 cm thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous 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 49834: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
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Conodonta | |
Conodonta indet. conodont | |
unclassified | |
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Echinoidea | |
? Archaeocidaris sp. M'Coy 1844 sea urchin | |
Strophomenata | |
"Derbya ? crassa" = Derbyia crassa
"Derbya ? crassa" = Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |