Where: St. Louis County, Missouri (32.5° N, 90.5° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 38.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Salem Limestone Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)
• Meramecian is equivalent to Visean according to Heckel and Clayton, 2006 (Geologica acta 4:403-407)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained grainstone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
• 67 of 259 specimens (25.8%) of Perditocardinia cf. P. dubia contain drill holes.
Reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: B. Deline, T. Baumiller, P. Kaplan, M. Kowalewski, and A. P. Hoffmeister. 2003. Edge-drilling on the brachiopod Perditocardinia cf. P. dubia from the Mississippian of Missouri (USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 201:211-219 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141631: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 30.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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