Where: Pike County, Missouri (39.5° N, 91.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 38.3° 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 6050: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 21.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Proetus missouriensis" = Pudoproetus missouriensis
"Proetus missouriensis" = Pudoproetus missouriensis Shumard 1855 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Rhipidomella missouriensis Swallow 1860 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula fleenori n. sp.
Lingula fleenori n. sp. | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. n. sp.
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