Wise Lake Formation, Rifle Hill Member Cephalopods, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin: Edenian, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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Endoceras sp.
Hall 1847
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Cephalopoda
- Discosorida
- Westonoceratidae
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Westonoceras minnesotense
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Westonoceras iowense
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Westonoceras sp.
Foerste 1924
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Valcouroceratidae
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? Manitoulinoceras wykoffense
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Cephalopoda
- Ascocerida
- Probillingsitidae
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Probillingsites milleri
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Probillingsites sp.
Foerste 1928
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Probillingsites welleri
Foerste 1928
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Cephalopoda
- Clinoceratidae
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Whiteavesites sp.
Foerste 1929
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Whitfieldoceras minimum
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Cephalopoda
- Barrandeocerida
- Barrandeoceratidae
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Centrocyrtoceras rotundum
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Gonioceratidae
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Lambeoceras confertum
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Lambeoceras cf. cultratum
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Actinoceratidae
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Actinoceras sp.
Bronn 1837
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Ephippiorthoceras sp.
Foerste 1924
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Kionoceratidae
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Kionoceras decorahense
Flower 1952
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin |
Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 91.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 20.4° South, 63.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
*Period: | Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician | *Local age/stage: | Edenian |
Key time interval: | Edenian | ||
Age range of interval: | 451.10000 - 450.40000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Galena | Formation: | Wise Lake | Member: | Rifle Hill |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Rifle Hill Member = "Stewartville" Member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | dolomite |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Dolomite or dolomitic mottled limestone. Lithology from C. O. Leverson, A. J. Gerk, R. E. Sloan, & L. A. Bisagno. General section of the Middle and Late Ordovician strata of Northeastern Iowa, Middle and Late Ordovician lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Minnesota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 35, p.25-39. 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 |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Faunal list compiled from: 1. Whitfield's (1882) report in volume 4 of Chamberlin's Geology of Wisconsin 2. Clarke's (1897) report in volume III part 2 of Winchell's Final Reports of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey 3. Bassler's Index 4. Individual articles (Foerste, Flower, etc.) 5. Treatise, Part K 6. Author's personal field data. |
Metadata
Database number: | 23779 | ||
Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
Modifier: | S. Holland | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2002-07-19 16:36:30 | Last modified: | 2004-10-22 12:57:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-07-19 16:36:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6752. | 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] |