Old sinkhole at railroad cut, Lutesville (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Was: MF-27. 0.4 km south and 0.4 km west of Marble Hill; Hillside exposure, just north of junction of Missouri Highways No. 34 and 51. In basic vicinity of Lutesvile locality..

Where: Bollinger County, Missouri (37.3° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 76.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cotter Formation, Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• N. American E Fauna

• 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 75579: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Eopteria richardsoni Billings 1865
pl. 25 f. 12