Where: Scott County, Missouri (37.2° N, 89.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Dutchtown Formation), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)
• N. American Conodont zone 5 (middle Whiterockian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: argillaceous 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 75554: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Isochilina variana Cullison 1938 ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis convexa Cullison 1938 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Lophospira corrugata" = Straparollina cassina, "Lophospira dutchtownensis" = Straparollina cassina, "Lophospira basicarinata n. sp." = Straparollina basicarinata
"Lophospira corrugata" = Straparollina cassina Whitfield 1886 snail
"Lophospira dutchtownensis" = Straparollina cassina Whitfield 1886 snail
"Lophospira basicarinata n. sp." = Straparollina basicarinata Cullison 1938 snail | |
Stenolaemata | |
Crepipora globulifera Cullison 1938 | |
Conodonta | |
Archeognathus primus n. gen. n. sp.
Archeognathus primus n. gen. n. sp. Cullison 1938 conodont |