Brandon Bridge, 30231, #4, "Orthis" layer (Silurian of the United States)

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

• Transgressive unit; 7.6 m thick; dominantly carbonate-dominated; overall formation is "bioturbated skeletal mudstone and wackestone [argillaceous dolostone] with thin, laminated interbeds of packstone"; "shelf environment below fair-weather wave base" with occasional storm influence
• Gray-green, shaly dolostone; argillaceous [dolomitic] mudstone facies with rare rounded detrital quartz

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

• BA4 Coolinia association; faunal list excludes diverse conodont fraction
unclassified
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Conodonta
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Distyrax sp. Lane 1988 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata "indet. sp. 1" Elias and Condra 1957
Fenestrata "indet. sp. 2" Elias and Condra 1957
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928
 Atrypida -
Atrypida indet. Rzhonsnitskaya 1960
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia applanata Salter 1846
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Jonesea sp. Cocks and Rong 1989
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceratidae indet. Hall 1859 snail
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Hexacorallia -
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
Astrorhizidae indet. Brady 1881
"Fragments"
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae