Clermont (Ordovician to of the United States)

Where: Iowa (43.0° N, 91.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° S, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scales Shale Formation (Maquoketa Group), Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 449.6 Ma)

• lower Maquoketa Formation; PJW: this should be Scales Shale now.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and T. N. Bayer. 1971. Sponges of the Ordovician Maquoketa Formation in Minnesota and Iowa. Journal of Paleontology 45(4):608-627 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120502: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Streptosolenidae
Aulocopella scelidos n. sp., Aulocopella dactylos n. sp., Aulocopella probolos n. sp.
Aulocopella scelidos n. sp. Rigby and Bayer 1971 demosponge
Aulocopella dactylos n. sp. Rigby and Bayer 1971 demosponge
Aulocopella probolos n. sp. Rigby and Bayer 1971 demosponge
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia sphaeroidalis
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge