Sardeson Collection, Wise Lake Formation, Sinsinawa Member, Illinois and Iowa (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Illinois, Iowa (42.0° N, 90.5° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 63.6° 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 23807: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 21.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
 Lingulida - Lingulasmatidae
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax
"Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira uphami, "Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Plaesiomys meedsi" = Dinorthis meedsi
"Plaesiomys meedsi" = Dinorthis meedsi Winchell and Schuchert 1892
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura rogata Sardeson 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena trilobita" = Strophomena trilobata
"Strophomena trilobita" = Strophomena trilobata Owen 1852
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus gigas Dekay 1824 trilobite
Isotelus susae Whitfield 1882 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurus pleurexanthemus Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Encrinuroides vigilans" = Erratencrinurus vigilans
"Encrinuroides vigilans" = Erratencrinurus vigilans Hall 1847 trilobite