Dover Mills: Richmondian, Iowa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tergomya - Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma gracilis multivolvis
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae
Plethospira semele (Hall 1861)
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Iowa
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 91.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.1° South, 115.2° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Katian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 5
Key time interval: Richmondian Conodont zone:  Amorphognathus ordovicicus
Age range of interval: 449.6 - 445.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Maquoketa Formation:Scales Shale Member:Elgin
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:172795
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-08-23 22:31:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-08-23 22:31:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

16127. H. S. Ladd. 1925. Depauperate fauna of the Maquoketa. Geological Society of America Bulletin 36(1):1-228 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]