East of Church (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Delta County, Michigan (45.7° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 55.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Ogontz Member (Stonington Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Richmond Formation, Stonington beds, Ogontz "member" of beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: brown, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Clear offshore water
• Massive, irregularly bedded limestone, soft and argillaceous to hard and cherty (the latter predominating), light grey to yellowish-brown to dark brown. Softer material in bands and lenses.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. C. Hussey. 1926. The Richmond Formation of Michigan. In E. S. McCartney (ed.), Michigan University Contributions from the Museum of Geology 2:113-188 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26315: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 12.10.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
"Streptelasma rusticum" = Helicelasma rusticum
"Streptelasma rusticum" = Helicelasma rusticum Billings 1858 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena parvula Foerste 1917
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Plectambonites rugosus" = Sowerbyella rugosa
"Plectambonites rugosus" = Sowerbyella rugosa Meek 1873
Plectambonites rugosus noquettensis
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella alveata Foerste 1909
H. alveata and H. alveata richmondensis
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia moritura" = Vinlandostrophia moritura Cumings 1908
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella jugosa
D. jugosa subplicata
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma gracilis Hall 1847 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ascocerida - Ascoceratidae
Billingsites newberryi
B. newberryi noquettensis
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
"Byssonychia obesa" = Ambonychia obesa
"Byssonychia obesa" = Ambonychia obesa Ulrich 1895 clam