USGS Loc. 599 (Devonian of the United States)

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

• typically composed of dense blue-gray limestone beds separated by brown dolomitic clay partings, includes a few beds of yellow-brown calcareous mudstone or soft argillaceous limestone. [dense limestone here is characterized as lithographic = lime mudstone to me]

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

• Abundance: a = abundant, c = common, r = rare. Some taxa listed are done so from review of literature of area ["distribution table...prepared from information secured by the writer in his collecting, from an examination of all available published descriptions, and from information supplied by other collectors."]
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unclassified
  -
? Gryptochiton anomalus
Crinoidea
 Disparida - Allagecrinidae
Allagecrinus americanus
Tentaculita
 Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites carbonarius
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingula lineolata" = Glossina lineolata
"Lingula lineolata" = Glossina lineolata Rowley 1908
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Crania (Crania) rowleyi" = Philhedra rowleyi, "Crania (Lissocrania) dodgei" = Petrocrania dodgei, "Crania (Acanthocrania) spiculata" = Acanthocrania spiculata
"Crania (Crania) rowleyi" = Philhedra rowleyi Gurley 1883
sgn. (Crania)
"Crania (Lissocrania) dodgei" = Petrocrania dodgei Rowley 1908
sgn. (Lissocrania)
"Crania (Acanthocrania) spiculata" = Acanthocrania spiculata Rowley 1908
sgn. (Acanthocrania)
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Leptalosia scintilla
Leptalosia scintilla Beecher 1890
 Productida - Productellidae
Orbinaria pyxidata
Orbinaria pyxidata Hall 1858
Changed from Productella on Olszewski's advice
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella louisianensis n. sp., Schuchertella lens
Schuchertella lens White 1862
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes geniculatus, Chonetes ornatus
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer marionensis
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia louisianensis n. sp., Ambocoelia minuta
Ambocoelia minuta
[entered as Amocoelia minuta]
 Spiriferida - Gerkispiridae
Acanthospirina aciculifera
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Camarophorella buckleyi
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira rowleyi
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris hannibalensis
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina acutirostris
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris hannibalensis
 Rhynchonellida -
"? Allorhynchus louisianensis" = Dorsisinus louisianensis
"? Allorhynchus louisianensis" = Dorsisinus louisianensis Weller 1914
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
? Allorhynchus curriei
 Terebratulida -
Selenella pediculus
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella missouriensis
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora sp.
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
Streblotrypa sp.
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
"Lioclema sp." = Leioclema
"Lioclema sp." = Leioclema Ulrich 1882
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Protocanites louisianensis
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras minimum
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
? Murchisonia pygmaea
? Murchisonia pygmaea Rowley 1895 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia minima
Bembexia minima Rowley 1895 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras pulcherrimum
Platyceras pulcherrimum Rowley 1908 snail
Trilobita
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
? Brachymetopus spinosiformis n. sp.
Leptodiscus
  -
Leptodiscus corrugatus
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram