Dixon site 2 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Lee County, illinois (41.9° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 63.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Diplograptus foliaceus graptolite zone, Mifflin Member (Platteville Formation), Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• base of "Mifflin Member, Platteville Formation, 2 m above the Pecatonica Member." "(Diplograptus foliaceous Biozone, Turinian regional Stage, Sandbian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified, dolomitic, nodular wackestone

• "carbonate platform"
• "fossiliferous lime mudstone and wackestone, locally dolomitized" in "5.5 m of thin,

•wavy, nodular beds containing a diverse, abundant, and well-preserved invertebrate fauna"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "the University of Illinois Paleontological Collections, USA (ISGS 1017–1020)"

Primary reference: J. O. R. Ebbestad, D. R. Kolata, and M. Isakar. 2021. New onychochilid mollusks from the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Baltica and Laurentia. Journal of Paleontology 95(1):106-122 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216909: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 30.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Paragastropoda
 Mimospirida - Onychochilidae
Catalanispira plattevillensis Ebbestad et al. 2021
type specimens ISGS 1017–1020