Midland Quarry: Missourian, Missouri

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Trepospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Missouri County:Livingston
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 93.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.0° South, 26.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 5
Key time interval: Missourian
Age range of interval: 305.9 - 303.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shale Hill Member:Exline Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: no formation given, shales assoc. w/ LS
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Midland Quarry (Pleasanton Group, Livingston Co., MO)
Database number:114
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2024-08-26 17:01:18
Access level:the public Released:1998-11-20 10:07:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12. J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13(4):311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]