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Caseyville - Drury Shale, Union County, Illinois, USA
Formation | Caseyville |
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Member | Drury Shale |
Age: | 359 - 299 Ma Paleozoic |
Interval | Carboniferous |
Lithology | shale |
Number of Collections | 1 |
Number of Occurrences | 2 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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Jackson Co. Loc. 9 | Union County, Illinois, USA | Caseyville - Drury Shale |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Caseyville - Pounds Sandstone | 359 - 299 Ma Paleozoic | sandstone | 2 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Cordaites sp. genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Cordaitaceae : Cordaites | 358.9 - 298.9 Ma Paleozoic |
References
Jennings J. R. (1984) Distribution of Fossil Plant Taxa in the Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian of the Illinois Basin 2, 301-312 |
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!