Locality 1. Road cut ~3 km north of Potosi on State Highway 21 (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as ?= Ulrich Locality 453L

Where: Washington County, Missouri (38.0° N, 90.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 86.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Given as Rasettia magna, but every other source puts that in the lower Potosi formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: J., J.r. Pojeta, M. J. Vendrasco, and G. Darrough. 2010. Upper Cambrian chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from Missouri, USA. Bulletins of American Paleontology (379)1-182 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98337: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Finkelnburgia missouriensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Polyplacophora
 Paleoloricata - Aulochitonidae
Aulochiton sannerae Pojeta et al. 2010 chiton
 Paleoloricata - Mattheviidae
Hemithecella eminensis Stinchcomb and Darrough 1995 chiton
Chelodes cooperi Bergenhayn 1960 chiton
  - Dycheiidae
Paradycheia dorisae Pojeta et al. 2010 chiton