Loc. 36. Waste banks of the Black Diamond Coal Company mine on the east side of US Hwy. 69, just south of Brush Creek, ~5.0 miles south of Pittsburg (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Cherokee County, Missouri (37.8° N, 93.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 28.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rowe Member (Krebs Formation), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• Given as Rowe Coal within Dry Wood formation within Krebs subgroup; this is the updated taxonomy.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and black, gray shale

• impure, fossiliferous limestone, overlain by gray to black fissile shale, underclay, and then the Rowe Coal layer

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 70474: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea capuliformis
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia crassa
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer occiduus" = Anthracospirifer occiduus, Spirifer opimus
"Spirifer occiduus" = Anthracospirifer occiduus Sadlick 1960
Spirifer opimus Hall 1858
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Knightites (Retispira) nodulifera n. sp." = Retispira nodulifera
"Knightites (Retispira) nodulifera n. sp." = Retispira nodulifera Hoare 1961 snail