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
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 | |
Desmoinesia muricatina Norwood and Pratten 1855 |