Maquoketa Formation, Clermont Member Gastropoda and Monoplacophora, Minnesota: Maysvillian, Minnesota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tergomya - Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
"Archinacella" deleta
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
unclassified
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
[entered as Lophospira quadricucata]
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Straparollinidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Matheria sp. Billings 1858
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Prolobella sp. Ulrich 1894
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Similodonta sp. Soot-Ryen 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Minnesota
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 94.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.9° South, 116.1° 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:Maysvillian
Key time interval: Maysvillian
Age range of interval: 450.2 - 449.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maquoketa Member:Clermont
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Shaly limestone. Lithology from F. M. Swain. 1987. Middle and Upper Ordovician Ostracoda of Minnesota and Iowa. Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 :99-101. Edited by R. E. Sloan.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: "[B]ased on a review of the Sardeson Collection at the University of Minnesota, Weiss (1953), Ulrich and Scofield (1895), the unpublished work of Levorson and Gerk, and the list in Stauffer and Thiel (1941)."
Metadata
Database number:23607
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner Enterer:T. Hanson, P. Wagner
Modifier:T. Hanson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-17 12:36:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-17 12:36:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

6737. R. E. Sloan and G. F. Webers. 1987. Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota. In R. E. Sloan (ed.), Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 183-186 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]