All:
just returned from teaching a week long field course in the St. Francois
Mtn's of Missouri. We examined a shale horizon which had been found
during the previous year, which lies
below the base of the M.
Camb. Lamotte sandstone, generally used as the base of the Paleozoic
sequence in the state. The shale contained relatively abundant
lingulids, which I have yet to identify. Does anyone know of good
references on inarticulates of this period/area or of previous finds of
them in Missouri? -Roy
Roy E. Plotnick
Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
845 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607
plotnick@uic.edu
office phone: 312-996-2111 fax:
312-413-2279
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oysters and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women,
Louisa May Alcott