USGS CO-3606 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Locality A of Neuman 1964

Where: Penobscot County, Maine (46.1° N, 68.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 3.1° S, 92.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Shin Brook Formation, Rangerian (471.3 - 470.3 Ma)

• Was Canadian-Whiterockian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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 115156: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 30.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cystoidea
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Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites robustus" = Paralenorthis robustus
"Orthambonites robustus" = Paralenorthis robustus Neuman 1964
 Orthida - Productorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomida -
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890
Artiopoda
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
? Hibbertia sp. Jones and Woodward 1899 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
? Annamitella borealis Neuman 1964 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis sp. Pribyl 1948 trilobite
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935 artiopod
Demospongea
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"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge