Phyla List
Mississippian
Fossils of Missouri
Phylum Porifera (sponges)
Titusvillia sp.
(Hexactinellid sponge
and root tufts)
Phylum
Cnidaria (corals and conularia)
Amplexus
sp.
Cladoconus sp.
Favosites sp.
Hapsiphyllum cassedayi
Palaeacis cuneiformis
Palaeacis obtusum
Paraconularia
missouriensis - conularia
Undescribed
Coral or Bryozoan?
Phylum Ectoprocta (bryozoans)
Archimedes terebreformis
Evactinopora radiata
Evactinopora
granis
Fenestella
sp.
Lyropora sp. #1
Lyropora sp. #2
Undescribed
Bryozoan or Coral?
Phylum Brachiopoda
(brachiopods)
Class Articulata
Camarotoechia grosvenori
Cleiothyridina obmaxima
(McChesney, 1861)
Spirifer vernonensis Swallow
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia (clams)
Aviculopecten? sp.
1
Aviculopecten? sp. 2
Class Gastropoda (gastropods
- snails)
Patellilabia
sp.
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta (worm
tubes)
Serpulid worm tubes on
Archimedes
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Trilobita (trilobites)
Pudoproetus
sp.
Phylum Echinodermata
(crinoids - blastoids - sea urchins)
Class Crinoidea
Cactocrinus
glans
(originally placed in Actinocrinus)
Dorycrinus
sp.
Forbesiocrinus
wortheni
Holcocrinus sp.
Onychocrinus sp.
Class Blastoidea
Schizoblastus
sp.
Class Echinoidea
Melonechinus multiporus
Sharks and Fish
Chomatodus multiplicatus
Deltodus sp.
Symmorium sp.
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