Whitewood Limestone Cephalopods, South Dakota (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: South Dakota (44.0° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.8° S, 66.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Whitewood Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24168: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 01.08.2002
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Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Diestoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Wilsonoceras sp. Foerste 1929 | |
Cyrtogomphoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Westonoceras sp. Foerste 1924
Winnipegoceras sp. Foerste 1928 | |
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
Cyclendoceras sp. Grabau and Shimer 1910 | |
Spyroceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
? Lambeoceras sp. Foerste 1917 | |
Tripteroceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
Ephippiorthoceras sp. Foerste 1924 |