Loc. 34. Old dump of air hole on side of road on the northeast edge of Bowen (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Johnson County, Missouri (38.6° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 28.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scammon Member (Cabaniss Formation), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• Given as shale overlying Tebo Coal, which would put it in the Scammon member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty shale and coal

• thin silty shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: U. Missouri

Primary reference: R. D. Hoare. 1961. Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri. Missouri University Studies 36:1-262 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70467: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida -
Desmoinesia muricatina Norwood and Pratten 1855