MF-3, ~7.6 km east of Marble Hill (Ordovician of the United States)

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
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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Fusispira cf. obesus Whitfield 1886 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
 Murchisoniina - Straparollinidae
Straparollina sp., "Straparollina grandis" = Straparollina cassina
Straparollina sp. Billings 1865 snail
"Straparollina grandis" = Straparollina cassina Whitfield 1886 snail
1 questionable
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"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
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
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
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Ceratopea wisei n. sp. Fix 1975 snail
opercula
Ceratopea hami Yochelson and Bridge 1957 snail
1 shell, 1 opercula
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
? Lophonema (? Lophonema) indet. Purdue and Miser 1916 snail
Lophonema aff. circumlirata Whitfield 1886 snail
Lophonema peccatonica Sardeson 1896 snail