St. Joe Fm. type section (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Searcy County, Arkansas (36.0° N, 92.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 40.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: St. Joe Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• 1-2 feet above base of formation at its type locality.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• thin limestone beds.

Primary reference: J. L. Carter. 1999. Tournaisian (Early Osagean) brachiopods from a bioherm in the St. Joe Formation near Kenwood, Oklahoma. Annals of Carnegie Museum 68(2):91-149 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5613: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 04.11.1999

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Schumardella obsolecens
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Avonia honeycreekensis, Rhytiophora blairi, Productina sampsoni
Rhytiophora blairi Miller 1891
Productina sampsoni Weller 1909
 Productida - Productidae
Magnumbonella sp.
Magnumbonella sp. Carter 1968
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp.
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp.
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Voiseyella sp.
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Prospira latior
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp.
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris parva
Crurithyris parva Weller 1899
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. n. sp.
Cleiothyridina sp. n. sp. Buckman 1906
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Cranaena sp.
Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Macropotamorhynchus tuta, Macropotamorhynchus chouteauensis