Prosser Limestone Cephalopods, Minnesota (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Minnesota (45.0° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° S, 62.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Prosser Limestone Formation, Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Catalani. 1987. Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area. In R. E. Sloan (ed.), Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 187-189 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23717: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 19.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Faunal list compiled from: 1. Whitfield's (1882) report in volume 4 of Chamberlin's Geology of Wisconsin 2. Clarke's (1897) report in volume III part 2 of Winchell's Final Reports of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey 3. Bassler's Index 4. Individual articles (Foerste, Flower, etc.) 5. Treatise, Part K 6. Author's personal field data.
unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
 Cyrtocerinida - Cyrtocerinidae
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
 Barrandeocerida - Barrandeoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum Hall 1877
"Orthoceras" junceum
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Tripteroceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae