Locality 3. Road cut near Pigeons Roost Rd, near Palmer & Berryman (Cambrian of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Polyplacophora
  - Dycheiidae
Paradycheia dorisae n. gen. n. sp.
Paradycheia dorisae n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta et al. 2010 chiton