Napoleon (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Indiana (38.2° N, 85.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.4° S, 91.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kockelella ranuliformis conodont zone, Upper Member (Osgood Formation), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• Salamonie Dolomite now. Conodont zone from Grahn & Bergstrom 1985.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, calcareous shale and graded, fine-grained, green, argillaceous limestone

• Gray calcareous shale containing a few interbedded lenticular greenish gray fine-grained argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. G. Tillman. 1960. Spathacalymene, an unusual new Silurian trilobite genus. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):891-895 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192898: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene nasuta n. sp. Ulrich 1879 trilobite
 Sphaeronitida - Holocystitidae
Trematocystis magniporatus Frest et al. 2011