Dunleith Formation, Beecher Member 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: Beecher Member (Dunleith Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson
• Lithology from C. O. Leverson, A. J. Gerk, R. E. Sloan, & L. A. Bisagno. General section of the Middle and Late Ordovician strata of Northeastern Iowa, Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35, p.25-39. Edited by R. E. Sloan

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 23768: 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
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Cephalopoda
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
Probillingsites milleri, Probillingsites welleri
 Cyrtocerinida - Cyrtocerinidae
Cyrtocerina schoolcrafti
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
? Manitoulinoceras wykoffense
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
Whitfieldoceras minimum
 Barrandeocerida - Barrandeoceratidae
Centrocyrtoceras rotundum
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp., Orthoceras beltrami
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Orthoceras beltrami
"Orthoceras" beltrami
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras decorahense
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum Hall 1877
"Orthoceras" junceum