Station 46. 4.5 miles WSW of Elsmore (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Kansas (37.8° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 28.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Drum Limestone Formation, Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: ooidal, shelly/skeletal limestone
• Rather pure oolitic limestone (90 to 95 per cent calcium carbonate), and is strongly cross-bedded and quite fossiliferous.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. N. Sayre. 1930. The fauna of the Drum Limestone of Kansas and western Missouri. Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 17:75-203 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 233341: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.02.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
"Phillipsia major" = Ameura missouriensis
"Phillipsia major" = Ameura missouriensis Shumard and Swallow 1858 trilobite | |
| Strophomenata | |
Productus missouriensis n. sp.
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| Rhynchonellata | |
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Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
| Bivalvia | |
"? Myalina swallovi" = Promytilus swallovi
"? Myalina swallovi" = Promytilus swallovi McChesney 1860 mussel | |
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Acanthopecten carboniferus Stevens 1858 scallop | |
"Deltopecten occidentalis" = Aviculopecten occidentalis
"Deltopecten occidentalis" = Aviculopecten occidentalis Shumard 1855 scallop | |
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Monopteria longispina Cox 1857 clam | |
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Edmondia aspinwallensis Meek 1871 clam | |
"Pleurophorus subcostatus" = Permophorus subcostatus
"Pleurophorus subcostatus" = Permophorus subcostatus Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
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Astartella gurleyi White 1890 clam | |