Where: Iowa (42.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 54.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Buck Creek Quarry Member (Scotch Grove Formation), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Buck Creek Quarry member, "probable early to middle Wenlockian age."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; dolomitic, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and dolomitic, shelly/skeletal wackestone

Collection methods: Includes taxa listed (with abundances) in table 50.9 as well as others mentioned in text.

Primary reference: B. J. Witzke and M. E. Johnson. 1999. Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 806-840 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25031: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 26.08.2002

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