Grand Detour Formation Cephalopods, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin (43.0° N, 91.0° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 63.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Grand Detour Formation, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Lithology and environment taken from Kolata, D. R. "Lithostratigraphy of the Plateville, Galena and Maquoketa Groups in Northern Illinois." Middle and Late Ordovician Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35, p. 21-24. R. E. Sloan, ed.

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 23756: 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
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Gorbyoceras sp., "Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum
Gorbyoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum Hall 1877
"Orthoceras" junceum
 Orthocerida - Tripteroceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
 Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras homerense
Gonioceras occidentale homerense
Gonioceras anceps Hall 1847
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
Chidleyenoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
 Cyrtocerinida - Cyrtocerinidae
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
? Redpathoceras sp. Flower 1963
 Ascocerida - Hebetoceratidae
? Hebetoceras sp. Flower 1941
 Barrandeocerida - Plectoceratidae
 Barrandeocerida - Barrandeoceratidae
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Spyroceras scofieldi
"Spyroceras" scofieldi
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
"Endoceras cf. annulatum" = Cyclendoceras annulatum Hall 1847
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842