Where: Pawnee County, Nebraska (40.0° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 27.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Severy Shale Formation, Virgilian (303.4 - 298.9 Ma)
• Organic rich limestone nodules within the Severy Shale Formation collected
•directly above the Nodaway Coal Member
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, nodular, carbonaceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: R. F. Diffendal. 1974. Microfossils from the Severy Shale (Pennsylvanian) near Du Bois, Nebraska. Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies, 84th Annual Meeting, April 19–20, 1974 31 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 94391: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 18.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862 | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. bryozoan | |
Ostracoda | |
Hollinella sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod | |
Amphissites sp. Girty 1910 ostracod | |
Coryellites sp. ostracod | |
Macrocypris sp. ostracod | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Holothuroidea | |
Eocaudina sp. Martin 1952 sea cucumber | |
Tetravirga sp. Frizzell and Exline 1955 sea cucumber | |
Achistrum sp. Etheridge 1881 sea cucumber | |
Paleochiridota sp. Croneis and McCormack 1932 sea cucumber | |
Ophiocistioidea | |
Protocaudina sp. Croneis and McCormack 1932 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Moreyella sp. Gunnell 1933 shark | |
Cooleyella sp. Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch | |
Conodonta | |
Streptognathodus sp. conodont | |
"Ozarkodina sp." = Ozarkodina, "Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Ozarkodina sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |