238-a (=UMo. 182). Near Boylers Mill (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Boylers Mills

Where: Morgan County, Missouri (38.3° N, 93.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 81.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gasconade Dolomite Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Gasconadian is equivalent to Tremadocian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cherty/siliceous limestone and dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and J. Bridge. 1931. Systematic Paleontology. Geology of the Eminence and Cardareva Quadrangles 186-225 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154358: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.02.2014, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
"Ophileta grandis" = Ceratopea grandis
"Ophileta grandis" = Ceratopea grandis Butts 1926 snail
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Gasconadia putilla, "Sinuopea regalis" = Sinuopea sweeti, "Rhachopea grandis" = Schizopea grandis
Gasconadia putilla Sardeson 1896 snail
"Sinuopea regalis" = Sinuopea sweeti Whitfield 1882 snail
"Rhachopea grandis" = Schizopea grandis Ulrich et al. 1931 snail