Louisiana (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Missouri (39.4° N, 91.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Burlington Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• White Ledge = beds with white cherts. lower Burlington, White Chert Beds; Cryptoblastus melo zone. PJW: White Chert beds are part of the Dolbee Creek member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified chert

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. Keyes. 1894. Paleontology of Missouri, part I. Missouri Geological Survey 4:143-225 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230535: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.06.2023

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Taxonomic list

Blastoidea
 Fissiculata - Phaenoschismatidae
Hadroblastus whitei Hall 1861 blastoid
 Granatocrinida - Schizoblastidae
Schizoblastus sayi Shumard 1855 blastoid