Road ditch near Odessa (Pleasanton Group, Lafayette Co., MO) (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Lafayette County, Missouri (39.0° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 34.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Exline Limestone Member, Carboniferous (360.7 - 298.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
• no formation name given, shales assoc w/ LS
Collection methods: core
Primary reference: J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleaecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13:311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 115: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998
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