Maquoketa Formation, Elgin Member Ostracodes of Minnesota: Edenian - Maysvillian, Minnesota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
"Bollia" regularis
unclassified
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
Quasibollia ridicula (Keenan 1951)
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Soanellidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Aparchitidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Schmidtellidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Primitiidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Euprimitiidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
"Beyrichia" irregularis
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Eridoconchidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
unclassified
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
"Bythocypris" furnishi
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Minnesota
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 94.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.1° South, 114.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Katian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Edenian - Maysvillian
Key time interval: Edenian - Maysvillian
Age range of interval: 451 - 449.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maquoketa Member:Elgin
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Shale interbedded with limestone; sometimes dolomitic.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:23191
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:T. Hanson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-10 10:42:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-10 10:42:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

6656. F. M. Swain. 1987. Middle and Upper Ordovician Ostracoda of Minnesota and Iowa. In R. E. Sloan (ed.), Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35:99-101 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]