Guttenberg Formation Ostracodes of Iowa (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Iowa (42.0° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 65.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Guttenberg Formation (Galena Group), Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: brown limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Light-brown limestone. Lithology from C. O. Leverson, A. J. Gerk, R. E. Sloan, & L. A. Bisagno. General section of the Middle and Late Ordovician strata of Northeastern Iowa, Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35, p.25-39. Edited by R. E. Sloan

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: F. M. Swain. 1987. Middle and Upper Ordovician Ostracoda of Minnesota and Iowa. In R. E. Sloan (ed.), Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35:99-101 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23207: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 10.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Circulinidae
 Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
Maratia sp. Kay 1940 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
 Palaeocopida - Schmidtellidae
 Palaeocopida - Aparchitidae
 Palaeocopida - Tvaerenellidae
 Palaeocopida - Euprimitiidae
 Palaeocopida - Tetradellidae
 Palaeocopida - Eurychilinidae
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
 Palaeocopida - Primitiopsidae
 Palaeocopida - Bassleratiidae
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
 Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae