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Pennsylvanian Fossils of Missouri
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Phylum Porifera (sponges)
Titusvillia sp. (Hexactinellid sponge and root tufts) - Mississippian
Regispongia contorta (King) with spicule - Pennsylvanian
Regispongia contorta (King) on crinoid column - Pennsylvanian

Phylum Cnidaria (corals and conularia)
Amplexus sp. - Mississippian
Cladoconus sp. - Mississippian
Favosites sp. - Mississippian
Hapsiphyllum cassedayi - Mississippian
Michelinia sp.  - Pennsylvanian
Palaeacis cuneiformis - Mississippian
Palaeacis obtusum - Mississippian
Paraconularia missouriensis Conularia - Mississippian

Auloporid coral - Devonian

Undescribed
Coral or Bryozoan? - Mississippian

Phylum Ectoprocta (bryozoans)
Archimedes terebreformis - Mississippian
Evactinopora radiata - Mississippian
Evactinopora granis - Mississippian
Fenestella sp. - Mississippian
Lyropora sp. #1 - Mississippian
Lyropora sp. #2 - Mississippian
Prismopora - Pennsylvanian

Undescribed
Bryozoan or Coral? - Mississippian

Phylum Brachiopoda (brachiopods)
    Class Inarticulata
Orbiculoidea missouriensis (Shumard, 1858) - Pennsylvanian
    Class Articulata
Beecheria bovidens (Morton, 1836) - Pennsylvanian
Camarotoechia grosvenori - Mississippian
Cleiothyridina obmaxima (McChesney, 1861) - Mississippian
Composita subtilita (Hall, 1852) - Pennsylvanian
Crurithyris planoconvexa (Shumard, 1855) - Pennsylvanian
Derbyia crassa (Meek & Hayden, 1859) - Pennsylvanian
Hustedia mormoni (Marcou, 1858) - Pennsylvanian
Kozlowskia haydenensis (Girty, 1903) - Pennsylvanian
Kozlowskia splendens - Pennsylvanian
Meekella striatocostata Cox - Pennsylvanian
Spirifer vernonensis Swallow - Mississippian
Theodossia hungerfordi - Devonian
      with colony of an auloporid coral and
      Spirorbis worm tubes attached

Phylum Mollusca
    Class Polyplacophora (chitons)
Chiton (head valve) - Pennsylvanian
Chiton (intermediate valve) - Pennsylvanian
Chiton (tail valve) - Pennsylvanian
    Class Bivalvia (clams)
Astartella concentrica - Pennsylvanian
Astartella varica - Pennsylvanian
Nuculopsis girtyi - Pennsylvanian
Parallelodon sp. - Pennsylvanian
Aviculopecten? sp. 1 - Mississippian
Aviculopecten? sp. 2 - Mississippian
   Class Cephalopoda
Domatoceras sp. - Pennsylvanian
Liroceras excentricum (Eichwald, 1857) - Mississippian
Parametacoceras bellatulum Miller & Owen, 1934 - Pennsylvanian
Temnocheilus annulonodosus ? - Pennsylvanian
    Class Gastropoda (gastropods - snails)
Amphiscapha reedsi - Pennsylvanian
Callistadia spirellia - Pennsylvanian
Ceraunocochlis fulminula - Pennsylvanian
Donaldina conditi - Pennsylvanian
Donaldina robusta - Pennsylvanian
Donaldina stevensana - Pennsylvanian
Donaldina swallowiana - Pennsylvanian
Floydia concentrica  - Devonian
Girtyspira minuta - Pennsylvanian
Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) grayvillense - Pennsylvanian
Glyptomaria (Dictyomaria) scitula - Pennsylvanian
Helminthozyga vermicula - Pennsylvanian
Jedria sp. - Pennsylvanian
Jedria meeki (Knight, 1933) - Pennsylvanian
Leptoptygma simplex - Pennsylvanian
Microdoma conicum - Pennsylvanian
Microptychis expetendus - Pennsylvanian
Orthonema amissidecoris - Pennsylvanian
Orthonema inornatum - Pennsylvanian
Orthonema chorda - Pennsylvanian
Patellilabia sp. - Mississippian
Platyceras (Orthonychia) parva - Pennsylvanian
Plocezyga (Gamizyga) nitida - Pennsylvanian
Plocezyga (Plocezyga) conica - Pennsylvanian
Plocezyga (Plocezyga) cordiformis - Pennsylvanian
Plocezyga (Plocezyga) percostata? - Pennsylvanian
Plocezyga (Plocezyga) subnodosa - Pennsylvanian
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) macra - Pennsylvanian
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) multicostata - Pennsylvanian
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pagoda - Pennsylvanian
Pseudozygopleura scitula (2 cm) - Pennsylvanian
Pseudozygopleura scitula (3 cm) - Pennsylvanian
Shansiella beckwithana - Pennsylvanian
Shansiella carbonaria - Pennsylvanian
Streptacis scalpta - Pennsylvanian
Streptacis whitfieldi - Pennsylvanian
Strobeus sp. - Pennsylvanian
Strobeus sp. (3 specimens) - Pennsylvanian
Strobeus primigenius (Conrad, 1835)
Strobeus regularis - Pennsylvanian
Trachydomia nodosa (Meek & Worthen, 1861) - Pennsylvanian
Trepospira depressa - Pennsylvanian
Trepospira minima - Pennsylvanian
    Class Rostroconchia (rostroconchs)
Pseudobigalea crista - Pennsylvanian
Pseudoconocardium sp. - Pennsylvanian

Phylum Annelida
    Class Polychaeta (worm tubes)
Serpulid worm tubes on a bivalve - Pennsylvanian
Serpulid worm tubes on Archimedes - Mississippian
Spirorbis worm tubes on a brachiopod - Devonian
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Phylum Arthropoda
    Class Trilobita (trilobites)
Anataphrus vigilans  - Ordovician
Bristolia sp. - (Lower Cambrian - Alabama)
Ditomopyge scitula - (enrolled) - Pennsylvanian
Ditomopyge sp. - Pennsylvanian
Ditomopyge sp. - Oklahoma - Pennsylvanian
Olenellus gilberti (Lower Cambrian) - Alabama)
Pudoproetus sp. - Mississippian

Phylum Echinodermata (crinoids - blastoids - sea urchins)
    Class Crinoidea
arm plates of disparid inadunates crinoids - Pennsylvanian
Cactocrinus glans - (originally placed in Actinocrinus) - Mississippian
Dorycrinus sp. - Mississippian
Edriocrinus dispansus - Devonian
Ethelocrinus sp. (plates) - Pennsylvanian
Forbesiocrinus wortheni - Mississippian
Holcocrinus sp. - Mississippian
Onychocrinus sp.  - Mississippian
Taxocrinus whitfieldi (Hall) - Mississippian
    Class Blastoidea
Schizoblastus sp. - Mississippian
    Class Echinoidea
Melonechinus multiporus - Mississippian

Phylum Hemichordata (graptolites)
Tetragraptus fruticosus - Ordovician

Phylum Chordata
    Sharks and Fish
Agassizodus sp. (tooth) - Pennsylvanian
Chomatodus multiplicatus - Mississippian
Chomatodus sp. - Pennsylvanian
Deltodus sp. - Mississippian
Edestus sp. (tooth) - Pennsylvanian
Eodiaphyodus granulosus  - Cretaceous
Petalodus sp. (tooth) - Pennsylvanian
Petrodus dermal denticles - Pennsylvanian
Pycnodus pellei - Cretaceous
Symmorium sp. - Mississippian
Fish scale? #1 - Pennsylvanian
Fish scale? #2 - Pennsylvanian
   Tetrapod
Tetrapod rib fragment - Pennsylvanian

Plants
   Lycopod Root Fragment
Stigmaria sp. - Pennsylvanian

Trace Fossils
Specimen 1 (Roots) - Quaternary
Specimen 2 (Roots) - Pennsylvanian
Stromatolite (Australia) - Archean

Predator & Parasitic borings (markings)  - Pennsylvanian

Phosphatic nodules - Pennsylvanian

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