Where: Minnesota (45.0° N, 93.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.0° S, 64.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: St. Peter Sandstone Formation, Whiterockian to Whiterockian (470.0 - 451.0 Ma)
• EZ 2
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: List is originally from Sandeson 1892, 1896 but was revised by Sloan.
Primary reference: R. E. Sloan, W.F. Rice, E. Hedblom and J.M. Mazzullo. 1987. The Middle Ordovician Fossils of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Minnesota Geological Survey, University of Minnesota, Guidebook Series no. 15 53-69 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10767: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 20.06.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
"Ophileta" sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail | |
Holopea 2 spp. Hall 1847 snail | |
Horiostomella sp. Perner 1903 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam
Modiolopsis 3 spp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Cyrtodonta 2 spp. Billings 1858 clam
Vanuxemia sp. Billings 1858 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
"Orthoceras" sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842 | |
Tergomya | |
Cyrtonellopsis sp. Yochelson 1958 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Doleroides sp. Cooper 1930 | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingula" sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Craniata | |
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Stenolaemata | |
? Ptilodictya sp. Lonsdale 1839 |