East side of Little Bay de Noc (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Little Bay de Noquette

Where: Delta County, Michigan (45.8° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 55.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ogontz Member (Stonington Formation), Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Coeval with Whitewater/Saluda

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH, UMMP

Primary reference: E.C. Stumm and E.G. Kauffman. 1958. Calymenid trilobites from the Ordovician rocks of Michigan. Journal of Paleontology 32(5):943-960 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75972: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.11.2007, edited by Susan Scholze

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria -
Beatricea undulata Billings 1857 radiolarian
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium huronense Billings 1865 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Protaraea richmondensis Foerste 1909 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Columnariidae
Columnaria alveolata Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Papillicalymene husseyi n. sp. Stumm and Kauffman 1958 trilobite