Michigan Basin conodonts, locality 18: Aeronian, Wisconsin

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus spp.
28 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Icriodella deflecta Aldridge 1972
30 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Distomodus cf. kentuckyensis Branson and Branson 1947
4 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Oulodus spp.
1 element
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Ozarkodina sp. Branson and Mehl 1933
24 elements
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella manitoulinensis (Pollock et al. 1970)
22 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wisconsin
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 83.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.1° South, 51.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
Stage:Aeronian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Aeronian
Age range of interval:440.80000 - 438.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Burnt Bluff Formation:Byron and Hendricks
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Several lithologies described from the section, but sample position is not marked, therefore the exact environment from which fossils were collected could not be established
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,acetic,sieve
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:180193
Authorizer:E. Jarochowska Enterer:E. Jarochowska, P. Nätscher
Modifier:P. Nätscher Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology,vertebrate
Created:2016-07-11 08:19:50 Last modified:2016-07-12 07:13:08
Access level:group members Released:2018-07-11 08:19:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53347. R. Watkins and J. J. Kuglitsch. 1997. Lower Silurian (Aeronian) megafaunal and conodont biofacies of the northwestern Michigan Basin. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 34(6):753-764 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]