Wise Lake Formation, Sinsinawa 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: Sinsinawa Member (Wise Lake Formation), Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 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 23778: 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
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
Whiteavesites sp., Whitfieldoceras minimum
Whiteavesites sp. Foerste 1929
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Westonoceras minnesotense, Westonoceras iowense, Westonoceras sp., Westonoceras cf. exiguum
Westonoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
Probillingsites milleri, Probillingsites sp., Probillingsites welleri
Probillingsites sp. Foerste 1928
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras clarkei
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
? Manitoulinoceras wykoffense
 Barrandeocerida - Barrandeoceratidae
Centrocyrtoceras rotundum
 Orthocerida - Tripteroceratidae
Tripteroceras planoconvexum
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras multicameratum, Michelinoceras sp., Orthoceras beltrami
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Orthoceras beltrami
"Orthoceras" beltrami
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum, Ephippiorthoceras sp.
"Orthoceras junceum" = Isorthoceras junceum Hall 1877
"Orthoceras" junceum
Ephippiorthoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Polygrammoceras prestonense
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
? Metaspyroceras wisconsinense
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras sp.
Actinoceras sp. Bronn 1837
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Lambeoceras confertum, Lambeoceras cf. cultratum
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras sp.
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847