ammonites
Locality 42. Steep embankment along Pershing Ave. at Cleveland Walk. (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: St. Louis County, Missouri (38.7° N, 90.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 25.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Higginsville Member (Fort Scott Formation), Moscovian (314.6 - 306.9 Ma)

• Just below Labette shale. Demoinesian, correlative to upper part of Myachkovian (upper Moscovian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. B. Knight. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 4(4):1-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69772: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.03.2007, edited by Kira Badyrka