Details - Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin

Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin

Title

Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin

Title Variants

Alternative: Chesterian Gastropoda

Related Titles

Series: Fieldiana, Geology, v. 34

Series: Publication (Field Museum of Natural History), 1179

By

Myint Lwin Thein.

Nitecki, Matthew H. , joint author.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1974

Notes

"February 28, 1974."

"This volume is dedicated in gratitude and respect to our friend and teacher, Professor J. Marvin Weller, geologist, stratigrapher, and paleontologist on the occasion of his 75th birthday."

Chester gastropods from southern Illinois, eastern Missouri, and north-western Kentucky are described. The method used in discriminating the immature from adult individuals is explained. Fifty-three named species, 20 indetermined species and four variants are described. Four new genera are as follows: Yochelsonospira, Wellergyi, Kinkaidia, Globozyga. -- Thirty-eight new species are as follows: Bellerophon (Bellerophon) claxtonensis -- B. (B.) menardensis -- Knightites (Cymatospira) welleri -- Patellilabia chesterensis -- Straparollus (Euomphalus) illinoisensis -- Trepospira (Trepospira) chesterensis -- T. (Angyomphalus) kentuckiensis -- Balyea okawensis -- Euconospira sturgeoni -- Neilsonia welleri -- Wellergyi chesterensis -- Yochelsonospira pagoda -- Gosseletina johnsoni -- Porcellia chesterensis -- Glyptotomaria (Dictyotomaria) yochelsoni -- Phymatopleura nyi -- Kinkaidia cancellata -- Strophostylus chesterensis -- Naticopsis (Naticopsis) mariona -- Aclisina golconda -- A. marvinwelleri -- Stegocoelia (Stegocoelia) kentuckiensis -- S. (Stegocoelia) okawensis -- S. (Hypergonia) baldwinensis -- Platyzona americana -- Eotrochus marigoldensis -- Paleozygopleura venusta -- P. welleri -- Bulimorpha minor -- Leptoptygma golconda -- Globozyga tenuistriata -- Meekospira bambooformis -- M. batteni -- M. evansvillensis -- M. mississippiensis -- Donaldina marigoldensis -- D. americana -- D. zadoe.

Fieldiana series has been published as Geological Series by Field Columbian Museum (1895-1909) and Field Museum of Natural History (1909-1943), and as Fieldiana: Geology by Chicago Natural History Museum (1945-1966) and Field Museum of Natural History (1966-).