Chouteau Formation (Union Co. Illinois): Kinderhookian - Osagean, Illinois

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Thigriffides roundyi (Girty 1926)
17 specimens
originally entered as "Thigiffides roundyi"
Griffithidella doris (Hall 1860)
7 specimens
Griffithidella alternata (Girty 1926)
3 specimens
Carbonocoryphe planucauda Brezinski 1998
5 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Illinois County:Union
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 89.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.6° South, 36.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1 - Carboniferous 1-2
*Epoch:Tournaisian
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Kinderhookian - Osagean
Key time interval: Kinderhookian - Osagean
Age range of interval: 358.9 - 343.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chouteau
Stratigraphy comments: Late Kinderhookian and Osagean
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Trilobites only
Metadata
Database number:9
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:08
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1. D. K. Brezinski. 1998. Trilobites from the Lower Mississippian starved basin facies of the southern United States. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):718-725 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Clapham]