USGS CO-3608 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Locality E of Neuman 1964

Where: Penobscot County, Maine (46.1° N, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 56.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Shin Brook Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, conglomeratic tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. B. Neuman. 1964. Fossils in the Ordovician Tuffs Northeastern Maine, with a section on Trilobita by Harry B. Whittington. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1181(E):1-38 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 115154: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 29.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
? Annamitella borealis Neuman 1964 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Famatinorthis cf. turneri Levy and Nullo 1973
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites" sp. Pander 1830
possibly Paralenorthis robusta
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
? Lesueurilla sp. Koken 1898 snail
Cystoidea
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Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846