Also known as Lower Verdi Member, St. Louis Fm., Keokuk Co., IO

Where: Keokuk County, Iowa (41.3° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 31.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Verdi Member (St. Louis Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• This data is from the lower Verdi Member of the St. Loius Fm. The St. Louis Fm. in Iowa is younger than the type St. Louis.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, burrowed, peloidal wackestone and packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: This list comes from a guidebook.

Primary reference: B. J. Witzke, R. M. McKay, B. J. Bunker and F. J. Woodson. 1990. Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of Mississippian strata in Keokuk and Washington Counties, southeast Iowa. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Guidebook Series 10:1-105 [A. Miller/A. Webber/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3294: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 29.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner and Austin Hendy

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