Calcite Quarry (= Michigan Limestone & Chemical Quarry), Rogers City (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as UM Loc. 31

Where: Alpena County, Michigan (45.4° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° S, 29.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bell Shale Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. E. Grant. 1965. The brachiopod superfamily Stenoscismatacea. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions 148(2):1-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206788: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2019, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella crassa" = Floweria crassa
"Schuchertella crassa" = Floweria crassa Imbrie 1959
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta "sp. A"" = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
"Strophodonta extenuata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
Strophodonta extenuata bellensis
Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939
Pholidostrophia gracilis
Pholidostrophia gracilis gracilis
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Pteraspidomorpha
 Pteraspidiformes - Protaspididae