Where: Pike County, Missouri (39.4° N, 91.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 38.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Louisiana Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Originally listed as Kinderhookian (Mississippian) age, changed by Sando et al. 1969. [JA: Siphonodella praesulcata Zone, i.e., latest Famennian, according to Chauffe and Nichols 1995]
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray, yellow, argillaceous lime mudstone and mudstone
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: J. S. Williams. 1943. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Louisiana Limestone of Missouri. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 203:1-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6027: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Leptodiscus | |
Crinoidea | |
"Platycrinus dodgei" = Platycrinites
"Platycrinus dodgei" = Platycrinites Sea lily | |
"Poteriocrinus jeffriesi" = Propoteriocrinus
"Poteriocrinus jeffriesi" = Propoteriocrinus Sea lily | |
Allagecrinus americanus Sea lily | |
Placodermi | |
Ptyctodus calceolus Newberry and Worthen 1866 armour-plated fish | |
Polychaeta | |
Tentaculita | |
Cephalopoda | |
Protocanites louisianensis ammonite
? Prolecanites sp. Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite | |
? Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
Archaeogastropoda sp. Thiele 1925 snail originally Pleurotomaria; PJW3 [entered as Archaeogastropod sp.]
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Bembexia minima Rowley 1895 snail | |
? Murchisonia pygmaea Rowley 1895 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Grammysia hannibalensis" = Ectogrammysia hannibalensis
"Grammysia hannibalensis" = Ectogrammysia hannibalensis Shumard and Swallow 1858 clam | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula louisianensis Weller 1914 | |
Craniata | |
"Crania (Crania) rowleyi" = Philhedra rowleyi, "Crania (Acanthocrania) spiculata" = Acanthocrania spiculata
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Rhynchonellata | |
"? Allorhynchus louisianensis" = Dorsisinus louisianensis
"? Allorhynchus louisianensis" = Dorsisinus louisianensis Weller 1914 | |
Strophomenata | |
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"Strophalosia beecheri" = Heteralosia beecheri, Leptalosia scintilla
"Strophalosia beecheri" = Heteralosia beecheri Rowley 1893
Leptalosia scintilla Beecher 1890 | |
Schuchertella lens White 1862 | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Lioclema sp." = Leioclema
"Lioclema sp." = Leioclema Ulrich 1882 | |
Trilobita | |
? Proetides strattonporteri trilobite | |
"Proetus missouriensis" = Pudoproetus missouriensis
"Proetus missouriensis" = Pudoproetus missouriensis Shumard 1855 trilobite | |
Hydrozoa | |
Plumalina gracilis Hall 1858 | |
Anthozoa | |
? Neozaphrentis palmeri horn coral
Neozaphrentis parasitica horn coral | |
Microcyathus enormis tabulate coral | |
Conopoterium effusum tabulate coral | |
Aganides | |