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Blue River - St. Louis Limestone, USA

GroupBlue River
FormationSt. Louis Limestone
Age:345 - 331 Ma
Carboniferous
IntervalMeramecian
Lithologylimestone/"shale", "limestone"
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences3

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
State highway 627Tazewell County, Virginia, USABlue River - St. Louis Limestone
AltonMadison County, Illinois, USABlue River - St. Louis Limestone

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Stethacanthus altonensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Symmoriiformes : Symmoriidae : Stethacanthus : Stethacanthus altonensis346.7 - 330.9 Ma
Carboniferous
Bellerophon scissile
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Bellerophontidae : Bellerophon : Bellerophon scissile345 - 336 Ma
Carboniferous
Naticopsis (Naticopsis) buttsi
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Naticopsidae : Naticopsis : Naticopsis (Naticopsis) buttsi345 - 336 Ma
Carboniferous

References

Gordon, Jr. M., Yochelson E. L. (1982) A Naticopsis operculum found in situ (Gastropoda: Mississippian), Journal of Paleontology 56 1, 260-265
Williams M. E. (1985) The "Cladodont level" sharks of the Pennsylvanian black shales of central North America, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 190, 83-158
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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