Where: Walworth County, Wisconsin (43.0° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 53.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Pterospathodus celloni conodont zone, Brandon Bridge Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• Unit 6 or 8 of Ball (1940). Listed as Upper Llandovery, Pterospathodus celloni conodont age
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, dolomitic, gray, green, argillaceous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with silica
Primary reference: R. Watkins, J. J. Kuglitsch, and P. E. McGee. 1994. Silurian of the Great Lakes region, part 2: Paleontology of the Upper Llandovery Brandon Bridge Formation, Walworth County, Wisconsin. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 87:1-53 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76451: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 20.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Conodonta | |
Conodonta indet. conodont | |
Trilobita | |
Acernaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite | |
Distyrax sp. Lane 1988 trilobite | |
Stenopareia imperiator trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestrata "indet. sp. 1" Elias and Condra 1957
Fenestrata "indet. sp. 2" Elias and Condra 1957 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Atrypida indet. Rzhonsnitskaya 1960 | |
Strophomenata | |
Coolinia applanata Salter 1846 | |
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Jonesea sp. Cocks and Rong 1989 | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceratidae indet. Hall 1859 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
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Foraminifera | |
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Lagenammina sp. Rhumbler 1911 |