Weisburg to Guiliford Area (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Dearborn County, Indiana (39.2° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 60.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Richmondian Group, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)

• C5 sequences; Liberty-Whitewater-Waynesville formations

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: museum: MUGM

Primary reference: B. C. Klingensmith. 2007. GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella. [A. Stigall/A. Stigall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77965: authorized by Alycia Stigall, entered by Alycia Stigall on 24.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosum" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosum" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa Whitfield 1878
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis insculpta Hall 1847
2 individuals
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus Hall 1847
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia foerstei" = Vinlandostrophia foerstei McEwan 1919
Platystrophia cypha James 1874
3 individuals
Platystrophia laticosta James 1871
2 individuals
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae