Where: Iowa (42.4° N, 92.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 37.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: upper varcus conodont zone, Little Cedar Formation (Cedar Valley Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Day. 1996. Faunal signatures of Middle-Upper Devonian depositional sequences and sea level fluctuations in the Iowa Basin: US Midcontinent. Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy: Views from the North America Craton: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 306 306:277-300 [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93843: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 04.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Craniata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Gypidula occidentalis, "Gypidula comis" = Gypidula cornuta
"Gypidula comis" = Gypidula cornuta Fenton and Fenton 1924 | |
Spinatrypa mascula, Spinatrypa occidentalis, Pseudoatrypa bremerensis, "Independatrypa independensis" = Desquamatia (Independatrypa), "Seratrypa rusica" = Desquamatia (Seratrypa)
"Independatrypa independensis" = Desquamatia (Independatrypa)
"Seratrypa rusica" = Desquamatia (Seratrypa) | |
Atribonium swallovi Branson 1923 | |
Strophomenata | |
Pholidostrophia iowensis, "Strophodonta solonensis" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), "Strophodonta reticulata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta solonensis" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta reticulata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta) | |
"Schuchertella iowensis" = Floweria iowensis
"Schuchertella iowensis" = Floweria iowensis Stainbrook 1943 | |
Lingulata | |