Where: Washington County, Missouri (37.8° N, 90.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 86.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bonneterre Formation, Dresbachian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Specimens collected from a 0.5m thick bed located in the studied upper 3 meters of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Collection methods: bulk,

• the specimens represent organisms that lived between the fingers of a bioherm located around a small epicontinental sea island.

Primary reference: B. L. Stinchcomb. 1975. Paleoecology of two new species of Late Cambrian Hypseloconus (Monoplacophora) from Missouri. Journal of Paleontology 49(2):416-421 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9625: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 23.03.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

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