Glen Park Formation, stratigraphic locality 394 (Atlas South), Pike Co., IL, Ear (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pike County, Illinois (39.5° N, 91.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 36.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glen Park Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• This formation was previously known as the Horton Creek member of the Hannibal Formation. Due to the existence of a paraconformity betweeen the Devonian-Mississippian contact, the exact stratigraphic position of these beds has been corrected several times since their first description in the early 1900's. Carter contains a complete description of the history of work done on these sections.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty dolomite

• carter states that the fossils are found in only one lithology at each collecting locality, often only in one bed. later in the paper he decribes that many of the fossils for stratigraphic locality 394 (atlas south) were found in the silty dolomitic facies. however, in general, the formation is described as containing fossils (brachiopods in particular) in biomicrite, oosparite, silty dolomite or dolomitic limestone, and calcareous sandstone or arenaceous limestone.

Collection methods: This collection from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Illinois State Geological Survey.

Primary reference: J. L. Carter. 1988. Early Mississippian Brachiopods from the Glen Park Formation of Illinois and Missouri. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History (27)1-82 [A. Miller/D. Carlson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5801: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 03.12.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Although molluscs are abundant at the type section of the formation and other macro invertebrates are very rare, only the brachiopod data are reported in this list.
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae
Shumardella fracta
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris missouriensis
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Kitakamithyris cooperensis
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris cf. levicula
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Parallelora nupera
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Eomartiniopsis kinderhookensis
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella rockportensis
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria hortonensis
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetes cf. gregarius, Plicochonetes ? glenparkensis