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Table I L-3. Lithology and paleontology of strata, Burning Star No. 4 Mine, Jamestown, IllinoisUnit Lithology Fauna and floraunnamed shalePiasa LimestoneMemberunnamed blackshaleDanville (No. 7)Coal Memberunnamed claystoneand shaly claystonesequenceBankston ForkLimestone16 Lawson ShaleMemberConant LimestoneMembershale, multicolored, greenish, bluish gray,orange-yellow to reddish, well laminated,weathered and eroded in upper portionlimestone, medium to light gray, fine grained,dense, hard, thick bedded, very fossiliferousshale, black, carbonaceous, slatycoal, normal bright bandedshaly claystone, medium greenish gray; gradesupward to claystone, medium gray; unit isweakly laminated, massive especially in upperportion; lower shaly claystone calcareouscontaining numerous small limestone pelletsupper limestone, light, brownish-tan to greenishgray mottled, fine grained, thick bedded,fossiliferousshaly claystone, medium greenish to gray togreenish or gray mottled, calcareous; thin andirregularily laminated; contains numerous smallgray limestone nodulesbasal limestone, light brown to light greenishtan, fine grained, thick bedded, fossiliferousshale, medium to medium dark gray, silty;well laminated in lower 2-3 feet; grades upwardto mottled light greenish to medium gray shaleupper 1-2 feetlimestone, medium dark gray, argillaceous,hard, fine grained, thick bedded, fossiliferousscattered plant debris and coaly stringersmostly unidentifiable brachiopod and crinoiddebris together with abundant whole specimensof Phricodoth yris perplexapyritized plant fragments and coaly stringersupper claystone-rooted-Stigmaria,. lower shalyclaystone-algal limestone nodulesostracodes-Geisha, Macrocypris and Coryellitessp., calcareous worm tubes-Spirorbis sp.,common plant roots-Stigmariaalgal limestone nodulesmostly brachiopod and crinoid debris; containsabundant whole specimens of brachiopodMesolobus mesolobusupper: barren except at upper contact withBankston Fork Limestone-contains brachiopodsMesolobus mesolobus and LinoproductusSP.lower: silty shale-burrows, pyritized plantfragments, bivalve Dunbarella rectalaterarea,brachiopods-Lingula carbonaria, gastropods-Donaldina robusta, Euph emites carbonaria,Bryozoan Stenopora sp., Ostracode-Coryellitessp.Brachiopods-Linoproductus prattenianus,Antiqua tonia portlockianus, Mesolobusmesolobus, Composita sp., calcareous foraminifera-Ammodiscusand Serpulopsis sp.,Ostracodes-Geisina warthini, Macrocypris sp.,Bardia sp., crinoid debris14 unnamed calcareousshale13 Jamestown CoalMembershale, medium to medium dark gray, calcareous,well laminated, firm, fossiliferouscoal, thin, normal bright bandedlimestone, dark gray to black, biomicriteto biosparite, thinly laminated, shale andcarbonaceous debrisshale, dark gray to black, calcareous,fossiliferousbrachiopods-Mesolobus mesolobus, Linoproductusprattenianus, Antiquatonia portlockianus,crinoid fragments, calcareous foraminifera-Ammodiscusand Serpulopsis sp.ostracodes-Geisina sp., and other unidentifiedform9 calcareous worm tubes-Spirorbis sp.,phosphatic fish debrisbivalve-Myalina wyomingensisgastropod-Knigh tites montifortianusbrachiopod-Lingula carbonaria