South Branch Camp Creek, 2.75 miles south of Ruma (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Locality #2; W.M. 594

Where: Randolph County, Illinois (38.1° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 31.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gnathodus bilineatus - Cavusgnathus altus conodont zone, Beech Creek Formation (Okaw Group), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Hombergian substage

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: M.L. Thein and M.H. Nitecki. 1974. Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin. Fieldiana: Geology, New Series 34:1-238 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58997: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) planidorsatus" = Euomphalus planodorsatus
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) planidorsatus" = Euomphalus planodorsatus Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
 Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
Donaldina marigoldensis Thein and Nitecki 1974 snail
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) chesterense" = Orthonychia chesterense
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) chesterense" = Orthonychia chesterense Meek and Worthen 1867 snail
var. 1 & var. 3
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites randolphensis Weller 1920 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Patellilabia chesterensis Thein and Nitecki 1974 snail
"Knightites (Cymatospira) welleri" = Cymatospira welleri Thein and Nitecki 1974 snail
 Murchisoniina - Luciellidae
Eotrochus marigoldensis Thein and Nitecki 1974 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Yochelsonospira pagoda n. gen. n. sp." = Yochelsonospira tenuilineata
"Yochelsonospira pagoda n. gen. n. sp." = Yochelsonospira tenuilineata Girty 1929 snail