Where: Pike County, Missouri (39.4° N, 91.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 38.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Louisiana Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Originally listed as Kinderhookian (Mississippian) age, changed by Sando et al. 1969. [JA: Siphonodella praesulcata Zone, i.e., latest Famennian, according to Chauffe and Nichols 1995]
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray, yellow, argillaceous lime mudstone and mudstone
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: J. S. Williams. 1943. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Louisiana Limestone of Missouri. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 203:1-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6029: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Allagecrinus americanus Sea lily | |
Trilobita | |
? Brachymetopus spinosiformis n. sp. trilobite | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Lioclema sp." = Leioclema
"Lioclema sp." = Leioclema Ulrich 1882 | |
Lophophorata | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingula lineolata" = Glossina lineolata
"Lingula lineolata" = Glossina lineolata Rowley 1908 | |
Strophomenata | |
Schuchertella louisianensis n. sp.
Schuchertella lens White 1862 | |
Leptalosia scintilla Beecher 1890 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia louisianensis n. sp. | |
Rhipidomella missouriensis Swallow 1860 | |
"? Allorhynchus louisianensis" = Dorsisinus louisianensis
"? Allorhynchus louisianensis" = Dorsisinus louisianensis Weller 1914 | |
Craniata | |
"Crania (Crania) rowleyi" = Philhedra rowleyi, "Crania (Acanthocrania) spiculata" = Acanthocrania spiculata, "Crania (Lissocrania) dodgei" = Petrocrania dodgei
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Gastropoda | |
Bembexia minima Rowley 1895 snail | |
? Murchisonia pygmaea Rowley 1895 snail | |
Platyceras pulcherrimum Rowley 1908 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Protocanites louisianensis ammonite | |
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |
Leptodiscus | |