Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri: Mississippian, Missouri
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bacillariophyceae
- Naviculales
- Pinnulariaceae
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Pinnularia sp.
Ehrenberg 1843
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Pteropsida
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? Pecopteris unita
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Pecopteris lesquereuxii
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Pecopteris dentata
Brongniart 1835
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Calamites ramosus artis
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
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Annularia stellata
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Annularia sphenophylloides
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Pinopsida
- Cordaitanthales
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Cordaites communis
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Cordaites cf. costatus
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Medullosaceae
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Mariopteris mazoniana
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Neuropteris fimbrianta
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Neuropteris scheuschzeri
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Neuropteris jenneyi
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Neuropteris rarinervis
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Neuropteris caudata
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Neuropteris flexuosa
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Neuropteris tenuifolia
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Neuropteris cf. trichomanoides
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Neuropteris dilatata
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Equisetopsida
- Sphenophyllales
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Sphenophyllum cunefolium
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Sphenophyllum majus
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Sphenopteridae
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Sphenopteris obtusiloba
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Sphenopteris macilenta
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Sphenopteris lacoei
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Sphenopteris sp.
Sternberg 1825
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unclassified
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Dictyopteris squarrosa
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Diplothmema geniculatum
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Sigillariaceae
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Sigillaria sp.
Brongniart 1822
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Cordaitales
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Cordaianthus sp.
Grand'Eury 1877
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Cordaicarpus lineatus
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Missouri |
| Coordinates: | 37.1° North, 94.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.4° South, 39.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous |
| Key time interval: | Mississippian |
| Age range of interval: | 358.90000 - 323.20000 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: Plant materials come from light ash-colored somewhat arenaceous shales with minute particles of mica. Portions are massive, sandy and darker. Black coaly shales. | |
| Geology comments: McClelland's Shaft- the basin affects surface topography as a slight sink. Occurs in loose layers of chert brecciated in situ and alternate limestone strata. The bottom of the depression is covered by loose chert. The shales, in a lenticular body, of about 10 feet in thickness very convex below and slightly concave above. At this level the basin iss about thrity feet in diameter. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression,replaced with pyrite,replaced with other |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Collection method comments: Collection is from 14 boxes collected by Dr. WP Jenney fot eh USGS in the fall of 1889 during a study of lead and zinc deposits in Missouri. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 12122 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Gastaldo | Enterer: | J. Allen |
| Modifier: | J. Allen | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2001-10-09 14:58:14 | Last modified: | 2002-12-28 14:48:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-10-09 14:58:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4213. | D. White. 1893. Flora of the Outlying Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri. United States Geological Survey (98)1-137 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen] |