Loc. 16. Old quarry just sout of the Marmaton River, west side of County Highway H, ½ mile north of Deerfield (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Vernon County, Missouri (37.8° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 29.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Seville Limestone Member (Krebs Formation), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• Given as Scammon formation within Cabaniss subgroup; this is the updated taxonomy

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ferruginous, gray, red, yellow limestone

• weathers to ferruginous, dark, yellowish red. Fresh surface dark gray and quite compact.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: U. Missouri

Primary reference: R. D. Hoare. 1961. Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri. Missouri University Studies 36:1-262 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70284: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella concentrica Conrad 1842 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nuculopsis) girtyi Schenck 1934 nut clam
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer goreii Mather 1915
Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Mesolobus lioderma" = Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma, "Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens
"Mesolobus lioderma" = Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma Dunbar and Condra 1932
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens Girty 1912
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Mesolobus striatus Weller and McGehee 1933
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida -
Desmoinesia nana Meek and Worthen 1866
Desmoinesia muricatina Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852