MF-19. 2.0 km south and 0.8 km west of Crump (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Power substation next to railroad tracks on the west side of county road U.

Where: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (37.4° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° 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 75558: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Ceratopea ? unguis Yochelson and Bridge 1957 snail
steinkern