Where: Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa (42.5° N, 92.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° S, 65.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Galena Dolomite Formation, Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)
• Formation named by Bassler (1915); local age/stage and correlation with other formations uncertain.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: "Where possible, stratigraphic information is taken from museum labels; where this is not possible, it is taken from Bassler (1915)."
Primary reference: J., J.r. Pojeta. 1987. Ordovician pelecypods from the Upper Mississippi Valley. In R. E. Sloan (ed.), Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 182-182 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23553: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 16.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Vanuxemia sp. Billings 1858 clam
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam | |
"Endodesma sp." = Cymatonota, Orthodesma sp.
"Endodesma sp." = Cymatonota Ulrich 1893 clam
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam | |
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam | |
Similodonta sp. Soot-Ryen 1964 clam |