Cummingsville Formation Echinoderms, Upper Mississippi Valley (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Minnesota (44.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 62.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Cummingsville Formation, Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and shale

• Environmental call by T. Hanson
• Alternating layers of limestone and shale. Lithology from O. L. Karklins. 1987. Bryozoa from Rocklandian (Middle Ordovician) rocks of the Upper Mississippi Valley region. Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 :173-176.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Kolata, J. C. Brower, and T. J. Frest. 1987. Upper Mississippi Valley Champlainian and Cincinnatian echinoderms. Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 179-181 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23403: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 14.07.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Edrioasteroidea
 Edrioasterida - Edrioasteridae
Edrioaster bigsbyi Billings 1858
  - Pyrgocystidae
  - Hemicystitidae
Echinoidea
 Bothriocidaroida -
Crinoidea
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Cremacrinus guttenbergensis Kolata 1975 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Dendrocrinidae
Dendrocrinus aff. acutidactylus Billings 1859 Sea lily
 Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae
Cupulocrinus humilis Billings 1857 Sea lily
 Porocrinida -
 Hybocrinida - Hybocrinidae
Hybocrinus conicus Billings 1857 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
Soluta
 Syringocrinida - Iowacystidae