Also known as Quarry

Where: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (37.2° N, 89.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 76.4° 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 75562: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.10.2007

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