Porocrinus pentagonius-Carabocrinus Association of the Wise Lake Formation at Bu: Maysvillian, Iowa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cyclocystoidea
- Cyclocystoididae
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Sievertsia sp.
Smith and Paul 1982
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Cyclocystoides sp.
Salter and Billings 1858
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Cyclocystoides sp. C, Kolata, Brower, and Frest, 1987 | ||||||||||
Glyptosphaeritida
- Eumorphocystidae
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Eumorphocystis sp.
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Crinoidea
- Diplobathrida
- Rhodocrinitidae
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Rhaphanocrinus sp.
Wachsmuth and Springer 1885
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Crinoidea
- Calceocrinida
- Calceocrinidae
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Cremacrinus aff. punctatus
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Crinoidea
- Homocrinida
- Homocrinidae
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Ectenocrinus simplex
(Hall 1847)
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original and current combination Heterocrinus simplex | ||||||||||
Crinoidea
- Merocrinidae
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Merocrinus sp.
Walcott 1884
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Crinoidea
- Porocrinida
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Porocrinus pentagonius
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Carabocrinus sp.
Billings 1857
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Carabocrinus sp. A, Kolata, Brower, and Frest, 1987 | ||||||||||
Carabocrinus radiatus
Billings 1857
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Crinoidea
- Cupulocrinidae
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Cupulocrinus aff. conjugans
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Cupulocrinus sp.
d'Orbigny 1849
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Cupulocrinus sp. A, Kolata, Brower, and Frest, 1987 | ||||||||||
Quinquecaudex springeri
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Rhombifera
- Pleurocystitidae
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Pleurocystites ? filitextus
Billings 1854
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Rhombifera
- Glyptocystidae
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Tanaocystis sp.
Sprinkle 1982
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Edrioasteroidea
- Edrioblastoida
- Steganoblastidae
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Astrocystites ? ottawaensis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Iowa | County: | Winneshiek County |
Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 91.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° South, 61.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
*Period: | Middle Ordovician | *Epoch: | Caradoc | *Local age/stage: | Edenian |
Key time interval: | Maysvillian | ||
Age range of interval: | 450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | burrows lithified wackestone |
Lithology description: Very fossiliferous, very strongly echinoderm dominated in most beds. Most often seen are pure, burrow-mottled, even bedded echinoderm wackestones to packstones, but some grainstone is present also. | |
Environment: | sand shoal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 13156 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Foote | Enterer: | K. Koverman |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2002-01-24 10:21:35 | Last modified: | 2018-06-27 13:13:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-24 10:21:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4379. | T. J. Frest, C. E. Brett, and B. J. Witzke. 1999. Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 638-783 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/P. Wagner] |