Kimmswick Limestone

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Kimmswick Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Sandbian-Katian (Trentonian-Shermanian)
~458–446  Ma
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Fossil from the Kimmswick Limestone (Missouri)
Type Formation
Underlies Cape Limestone, Maquoketa Group [1] or the Fernvale Limestone in Arkansas [2]
Overlies Decorah Shale [1] or Plattin Limestone [2]
Lithology
Primary Limestone
Other Sandstone, dolomite [2]
Location
Coordinates 39°12′N90°48′W / 39.2°N 90.8°W / 39.2; -90.8 Coordinates: 39°12′N90°48′W / 39.2°N 90.8°W / 39.2; -90.8
Approximate paleocoordinates 23°06′S66°00′W / 23.1°S 66.0°W / -23.1; -66.0
Region Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Type section
Named for Kimmswick, Jefferson County, Missouri [3]
Named by Edward Oscar Ulrich
Year defined1904 [1]
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Kimmswick Limestone (the United States)
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Kimmswick Limestone (Missouri)

The Kimmswick Limestone is an Ordovician geologic formation in Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri. Fossils occurring in the Kimmswick include corals, bryozoans, brachiopods, conodonts, [4] trilobites, crinoids and mollusks. [2]

Contents

Fossil content

The following fossils have been reported from the formation: [5]

Conodonts

A. unicostatus [4]
A. alveolaris [4]
A. elegans [4]
A. pulcher [4]
A. triangularis [4]
A. abrupta [4]
A. polita [4]
B. compressa [4]
C. delicatus [4]
C. flexuosus [4]
D. brevis [4]
D. scotti [4]
D. typica [4]
D. falcatus [4]
D. homocurvatus [4]
D. suberectus [4]
E. delicata [4]
I. superba [4]
K. gracilis [4]
O. abundans [4]
O. inclinatus [4]
O. parallelus [4]
O. concinna [4]
P. compressus [4]
P. ellisoni [4]
P. fornicalis [4]
P. gracilis [4]
P. simplex [4]
P. undatus [4]
P. furcata [4]
R. divaricatus [4]
R. typicus [4]
S. robustus [4]
S. insculptus [4]
T. superbus [4]
T. exacta [4]
Z. curvata [4]
Z. mira [4]

Trilobites

E. slocomi [6]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson, Thomas L., 2001, Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Report of Investigation Number 73, p 153
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Arkansas Geologic Survey". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
  3. Ulrich, E. (1904). "The quarrying industry of Missouri". Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines. 2nd Series. 2: 111.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Craig, William (1968). The stratigraphy and conodont paleontology of Ordovician and Silurian strata, Batesville district, Independence and Izard counties, Arkansas (PhD). The University of Texas.
  5. Kimmswick Limestone at Fossilworks.org
  6. Sinclair, G. Winston (1949). "The Ordovician trilobite Eobronteus". Journal of Paleontology. 23 (1): 48–50, pls. 12, 13.