Also known as Road cut, east side of county road U, 1 km south of junction with Missouri Highway No. 34, ear diamond-shaped roadsign across from sawmill.
Where: Bollinger County, Missouri (37.3° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smithville Formation, Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)
• N. American E Fauna, Reutterodus andinus zone, middle Blackhillsian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric
Primary reference: M. F. Fix. 1975. The Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Smithville and Blackrock Formations of Southeastern Missouri. M.S. Thesis, Geology, Washington University 1-147 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75521: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Rostroconchia | |
Eopteria cf. richardsoni Billings 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
Fusispira cf. obesus Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Lophospira aff. perangulata Hall 1847 snail | |
Straparollina sp., "Straparollina grandis" = Straparollina cassina
Straparollina sp. Billings 1865 snail | |
"Murchisonia (Turritoma) cf. acrea" = Turritoma acrea, "Turritoma acrea" = Turritoma acrea
"Murchisonia (Turritoma) cf. acrea" = Turritoma acrea Billings 1865 snail
"Turritoma acrea" = Turritoma acrea Billings 1865 snail | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
Hormotoma indet. Salter 1859 snail
Hormotoma artemesia Billings 1865 snail
Hormotoma aff. artemesia Billings 1865 snail
Hormotoma confusa Whitfield 1889 snail | |
Ceratopea wisei n. sp., Ceratopea hami
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? Lophonema (? Lophonema) indet. Purdue and Miser 1916 snail
Lophonema aff. circumlirata Whitfield 1886 snail
Lophonema peccatonica Sardeson 1896 snail |