Where: Washington County, Missouri (37.9° N, 91.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 86.5° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eminence Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• Authors give Rasettia magna trilobite zone, but that is much too old for the Eminence.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
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 98339: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polyplacophora | |
Paradycheia dorisae n. gen. n. sp.
Paradycheia dorisae n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta et al. 2010 chiton |