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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Protowarthia pervoluta" = Sinuites pervoluta
"Protowarthia pervoluta" = Sinuites pervoluta Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Conradella obliqua" = Phragmolites obliquus
"Conradella obliqua" = Phragmolites obliquus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Carinaropsis phalera" = Carinaropsis cymbula
"Carinaropsis phalera" = Carinaropsis cymbula Hall 1861 snail | |
Liospira decipens Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Gyronema pulchellum Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Tergomya | |
Archinacella cingulata Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Archinacella deleta Sardeson 1892 |