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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cherty/siliceous 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 23777: 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
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum Hall 1877
"Orthoceras" junceum
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras decorahense, Polygrammoceras prestonense
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
? Metaspyroceras wisconsinense
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras multicameratum, Michelinoceras sp., Orthoceras beltrami
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Orthoceras beltrami
"Orthoceras" beltrami
 Orthocerida - Tripteroceratidae
Tripteroceras planoconvexum
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Cameroceras hennepini, Cameroceras cf. alternatum
 Barrandeocerida - Barrandeoceratidae
Centrocyrtoceras rotundum
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
Probillingsites milleri, Probillingsites welleri
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Oncoceras douglassi
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras clarkei
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
? Manitoulinoceras wykoffense
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Teichertoceras cf. husseyi, Westonoceras minnesotense
 Cyrtocerinida - Cyrtocerinidae
Cyrtocerina schoolcrafti
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
Whitfieldoceras minimum, Whitfieldoceras cf. exiguum