ammonites
Loc. 20. East side of Drywood Creek, 30 yards from creek bank, 4.5 miles northwest of Moundville (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Vernon County, Missouri (37.8° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Seville Limestone Member (Krebs Formation), Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 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 70289: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.03.2007