Where: Cole County, Missouri (38.6° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 78.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Rich Fountain Formation), Jeffersonian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)

• Arengian half

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, white, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: J. S. Cullison. 1944. The stratigraphy of some Lower Ordovician formations of the Ozark uplift. University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy Technical Series Bulletin 15(2):1-112 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56503: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.11.2005

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