Understanding the paleoclimate of the Rheic Ocean at the beginning of the Mississippian Period, throughout the Kinderhookian, will help determine the spatial and temporal limits of the
dendroid Graptolite Dictyonema within Missouri.
Nautiloids, bivalves, gastropods,
dendroid corals, ostracods, calcareous algae (Solenopora), and bryozoans are present.
I ASKED STUDENTS TO THINK OF AN EMOTION they could use as a springboard for their own
dendroid.
The
dendroid graptolite Rhabdinopora flabelliforme has been found together with Leimitzia bavarica, and Rhabdinopora?
Despite its very limited distribution, the Orascja Member, with specific alternation of muddy and sandy lithologies and sufficiently rich assemblages of biostratigraphically valuable conodonts and several
dendroid graptolites, is a significant unit for understanding the geological history of the area.