Chatfield (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Fillmore County, Minnesota (43.8° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 63.1° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Rhinidictya bed Member (Decorah Formation), Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Given as Rhinidictya bed of Black River formation. This is contemporaneous with the Specht's Ferry Member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. O. Ulrich in 1890 - 1895; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154411: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods entered so far.
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
"Protowarthia pervoluta" = Sinuites pervoluta
"Protowarthia pervoluta" = Sinuites pervoluta Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Conradella obliqua" = Phragmolites obliquus
"Conradella obliqua" = Phragmolites obliquus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
"Carinaropsis phalera" = Carinaropsis cymbula
"Carinaropsis phalera" = Carinaropsis cymbula Hall 1861 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira decipens Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Gyronema pulchellum Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
Archinacella cingulata Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Archinacella deleta Sardeson 1892