Also known as Roadcuts on either side of county road 00 and adjacent hillside on west side of road.
Where: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (37.3° N, 89.8° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (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 75550: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda "gen. et. sp. indet." Cuvier 1797 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
"Maclurites smithvillensis" = Teiichispira ponderosa
"Maclurites smithvillensis" = Teiichispira ponderosa Billings 1865 snail | |
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Straparollina cassina Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Lophospiridae indet. Wenz 1938 snail
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Plethospira cf. arenaria Billings 1859 snail |