Where: Minnesota (45.0° N, 93.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 62.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus superbus conodont zone, Stewartville Member (Wise Lake Formation), Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• Given as Stewartville Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. F. Rice and E. P. Hedblom. 1987. Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities. Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 131-135 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23280: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 11.07.2002

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