Locality 13. North of Cave Creek, 3½ miles southeast of Vienna: Chesterian, Illinois
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Conocardiidae
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Conocardium chesterensis n. sp.
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Tergomya
- Archinacellida
- Metoptomatidae
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Lepetopsis sp.
Whitfield 1882
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Euphemitidae
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Euphemus randolphensis n. sp.
Weller 1920
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Bellerophon chesterensis n. sp.
Weller 1920
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Bucanopsis ornatus n. sp.
Weller 1920
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Phymatopleuridae
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Phymatopleura sp.
Girty 1939
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Trepospira (Trepospira) chesterensis
Thein and Nitecki 1974
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Mourlonia sp.
de Koninck 1883
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Soleniscidae
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Leptoptygma golconda
Thein and Nitecki 1974
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Illinois | County: | Johnson |
Coordinates: | 37.4° North, 89.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 13.1° South, 31.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2-3 | ||
Key time interval: | Chesterian | ||
Age range of interval: | 335.8 - 323.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Golconda | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Basal Beds; uppermost Gastperian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | ooidal "limestone" |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | FMNH |
Taxonomic list comments:Remainder of Weller's 1920 list:
Triplophyllum spinulosum Pentremites sp. Pterotocrinus capitalis Pterotocrinus sp. Crinoid plates Stenopora tuberculata Fenestella (several species) Archimedes sp. Polypora sp. Coeloconus sp. Bryozoans (several undet. spec.) Orthotetes kaskaskiensis (McChesney) Productus ovatus Hall Diaphragmus elegans (N. and P.) Camarophoria explanata (McChesney) Dielasma sp. Spirlferlna spinosa (N. and P.) Splrlfer increbescens var. americana Splrifer increbescens var. Martinia contracta (M. and W.) Eumetrla vera (Hall) Cltothyridlna sublamellosa (Hall) Composita trinuclea (Hall) Sphenotus sp. Cladodus Bp. Nucula randolphensis n.sp. Nucula platynotus n.sp. Nucula sp. Leda sp. Parallelodon sp. Myallna lip. Myallna sp. Schlzodus depressus Schlzodus sp. Schlzodus (?) BP; Aviculopecten (several spedes) Lepetopsls sp. Ptychomphalus sp. Ptychomphalus sp. MIourlonla sp. Holopea sp. Orthoceras cf. okawense Cycloceras cf. sequoyahensis Cycloceras sp. Nautilus sp. Dlscitoceras sp. Stroboceras sp. Phillpsia sp. Phillpsia sp. Fish teeth (several species) |
Metadata
Also known as: | 0.6 miles north of Berea School. W.M. 18-25. Stuart Weller 1920 | ||
Database number: | 59825 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-04-15 20:53:04 | Last modified: | 2019-12-09 13:09:49 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-15 20:53:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
15560. | M.L. Thein and M.H. Nitecki. 1974. Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin. Fieldiana: Geology, New Series 34:1-238 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
16430 | S. Weller. 1920. The geology of Hardin County and the adjoining part of Pope County. Bulletin of the Illinois State Geological Survey 41:1-416 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |