Also known as Roadcut and drainage ditch on a gravel road.
Where: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (37.3° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 76.3° 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 75556: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Rostroconchia | |
Eopteria cf. richardsoni Billings 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
"Tropidodiscus (Umbilicatus) macer" = Peruniscus macer
"Tropidodiscus (Umbilicatus) macer" = Peruniscus macer Billings 1865 snail | |
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"Lophonema sp." = Lophonema, "Polhemia indet." = Lophonema, Lophonema aff. circumlirata, Lophonema cf. taneyensis
"Lophonema sp." = Lophonema Purdue and Miser 1916 snail
"Polhemia indet." = Lophonema Purdue and Miser 1916 snail
Lophonema aff. circumlirata Whitfield 1886 snail
Lophonema cf. taneyensis Cullison 1944 snail | |
"Murchisonia (Turritoma) cf. acrea" = Turritoma acrea
"Murchisonia (Turritoma) cf. acrea" = Turritoma acrea Billings 1865 snail | |
Lophospira indet. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Hormotoma indet. Salter 1859 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
Ceratoleperditia "n. sp." Harris 1960 ostracod | |
? Eoleperditia "sp. A" Swartz 1949 ostracod |