Sardeson Collection, Ion Formation, St. James Member, Illinois and Iowa (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Illinois, Iowa (42.0° N, 90.5° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 63.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: St. James Member (Ion Formation), Kirkfieldian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

• 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, R. E. Sloan, ed.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Catalani. 1987. Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area. In R. E. Sloan (ed.), Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35 187-189 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23798: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 21.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Acanthocrania setigeria" = Acanthocrania setigera, Petrocrania trentonensis
"Acanthocrania setigeria" = Acanthocrania setigera Hall 1866
[entered as Acanthocrania setigera]
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Plaesiomys meedsi" = Dinorthis meedsi
"Plaesiomys meedsi" = Dinorthis meedsi Winchell and Schuchert 1892
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena septata Winchell and Schuchert 1892
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus gigas Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Sceptaspis lincolnensis Branson 1909 trilobite
Eomonorachus intermedius Walcott 1879 trilobite