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
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
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum
| |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Kionoceras decorahense Flower 1952 | |
Probillingsites welleri Foerste 1928 | |
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847 | |