Also known as Reef 3270

Where: Shannon County, Missouri (37.2° N, 91.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 87.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eminence Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• On the geologic map of the Eminence and Cardareva quadrangles (Bridge, 1930), this area is mapped as Van Buren Formation. Chert masses of the Van Buren do occur higher on the hill; within the limits of the base map provided by a 15' quadrangle, the map by Bridge is accurate. However, the trilobites Calvinella ozarkensis Walcott, Plethometopus sp., and Stenopilus latus Ulrich occur, along with the gastropods Dirhachopea sp. and Taeniospira sp. All of these fossils are characteristic of the Emi-nence Dolomite throughout the Ozark Dome region.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified chert

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica

Collected by B. Stinchcomb in 1980

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson and B.L. Stinchcomb. 1987. Recognition of Macluritella (Gastropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Missouri and Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 61(1):56-61 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93582: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.01.2010

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