Revised lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Devonian strata of central Missouri, southern part of Iowa basin
- Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL (United States). Dept. of Geography-Geology
Middle-Upper Devonian strata of central Missouri are now included in the Cedar Valley Formation and Snyder Creek Shale. The Cedar Valley is divided into the Cooper, Mineola, and Callaway members. The Snyder Creek Shale is now defined to include: the New Bloomfield, Craghead Branch, Cow Creek, and Warren Branch members. The Cooper and Mineola members make up a carbonate-dominated late Givetian age depositional sequence. Cooper and Mineola strata contain brachiopods that correlate with the Rhyssochonetes bellarugosa-Neatrypa waterlooensis zones of the Little Cedar Formation of Iowa. Deposition of the Little Cedar of Iowa and Cedar Valley of Missouri corresponds to the lower part of Euramerican Devonian T-R Cycle IIa of Johnson et al. (1985). Carbonates of the Callaway Member and mixed shales and carbonates of the overlying Snyder Creek Shale make up a latest Givetian-early Frasnian depositional sequence. The Callaway brachiopod fauna is correlated with the Allanella allani Zone, and the Snyder Creek brachiopod fauna is correlated with the Strophodonta callawayensis Zone of the Lithograph City Formation of Iowa. Conodont faunas recovered from the Callaway correlate with the interval of the P. insita Fauna (latest Givetian-early Frasnian). Conodont faunas from the Snyder Creek contain species of Ancyrodella and Mesotaxis that provide the basis for direct correlation with Zone 3 of the Frasnian Montagne Noire conodont zonation of Klapper (1989) as discussed in Johnson and Klapper (1992). Deposition of the Callaway-Snyder Creek of Missouri and Lithograph City of Iowa corresponds to Euramerican Devonian T-R Cycle IIb of Johnson et al. (1985).
- OSTI ID:
- 5018702
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9303210-; CODEN: GAAPBC
- Journal Information:
- Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States), Vol. 25:3; Conference: 27. annual Geological Society of America (GSA) North-Central Section meeting, Rolla, MO (United States), 29-30 Mar 1993; ISSN 0016-7592
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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