Ulrich & Scofield Locality 1.5 miles south of Burgin (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Blue Earth County, Minnesota (37.7° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Perryville Member (Lexington Formation), Franklinian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 154416: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea parvula Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bucania nana n. sp." = Sphenosphaera nana, Sphenosphaera burginensis1, "Bellerophon (Bellerophon) subpatula n. sp." = Sphenosphaera subpatula2
"Bucania nana n. sp." = Sphenosphaera nana Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Sphenosphaera burginensis1 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bellerophon troosti burginensis
"Bellerophon (Bellerophon) subpatula n. sp." = Sphenosphaera subpatula2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania sublata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bucania subangulata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bucania rugatina Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail