LocalityT, 3 miles West of Louisiana (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Pike County, Missouri (39.4° N, 91.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 60.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Noix Limestone Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Amsden. 1974. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian articulate brachiopods from Oklahoma, southwestern Illinois, and eastern Missouri. Bulletin - Oklahoma Geological Survey 119:1-154 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55459: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 26.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
"Hirnantia noixella" = Drabovia noixella
"Hirnantia noixella" = Drabovia noixella Amsden 1974
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis savagei Amsden 1974
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
? Coolinia convexa Savage 1913
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae