Roof rock of the No. 7 coal: Desmoinesian - Gzhelian, Illinois

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polyplacophora - Lepidopleuridae
Stevens 1858
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Illinois
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 88.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.1° South, 22.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4-5 - Carboniferous 5
Key time interval: Desmoinesian - Gzhelian
Age range of interval: 312.7 - 298.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Marmaton Formation:Fort Scott Limestone Member:Pawnee Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:128873
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2012-06-17 13:47:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-06-17 13:47:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
15964. W. F. E. Gurley. 1884. New Carboniferous fossils. Gurley Bulletin 2:1-12 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

16362 R. P. Stevens. 1858. Description of new Carboniferous fossils from the Appalachia, Illinois and Michigan coal fields. American Journal of Science 25:258-265 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]