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Help me name the outstanding fossil deposits of the midcontinent Devonian


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Crowdsourcing / help request!

 

I'm putting together a review article for the fossil collector community on the Devonian rocks of the American midcontinent, which I've defined as the gray area on the map below plus southwest Ontario. I'm hoping to include a section in which I highlight the midcontinent fossils of greatest renown for each of a number of taxa (list below). (I purposely leave "renown" as a somewhat squishy quality open to multiple interpretations.)

 

I would appreciate

(1) your nominations of any midcontinent Devonian fossils of great renown that I have failed to capture in the list below and

(2) your assistance in filling in the blanks marked with "????"

 

Thank you! List is below.

 

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Microbes:

????

 

Marine algae: 

????

 

Sponges:

Formosa Reef Limestone, SW Ontario

Rockport Quarry Limestone, NE Michigan

????

 

Corals:

Widder Formation, SW Ontario

Jeffersonville Limestone, S. Indiana

Petoskey Limestone, NW lower Michigan

 

Hyolithids:

Arkona Formation, SW Ontario

 

Tentaculitids:

Arkona Formation, SW Ontario


Conulariids:

????

 

Bryozoans:

????

 

Brachiopods:

Silica Formation, NW Ohio

????


Pelecypods:

Arkona Formation, SW Ontario

????


Gastropods:

Rogers City Limestone, NE Michigan

????


Non-ammonoid cephalopods:

????

 

Ammonoid cephalopods:

Arkona Formation, SW Ontario


Pelecypods:

Dundee Limestone, NW Ohio

Arkona Formation, SW Ontario


Rostroconchs:

Dundee Limestone, NW Ohio

 

Trilobites:

Silica Formation, NW Ohio

Arkona Formation and Widder Formation, SW Ontario

Haragan and Bois d'Arc Formations, SE Oklahoma


Non-ostracode crustaceans:

Chagrin Shale, NE Ohio

Arkona Formation and Widder Formation, SW Ontario

Silica Formation, NW Ohio


Echinoderms:

Arkona Formation, SW Ontario

Silica Formation, NW Ohio

Thunder Bay Limestone, NE Michigan


Graptolites:

????


Fish:

Rockport Quarry Limestone, NE Michigan

Columbus Limestone, central Ohio

Cleveland Shale, NE Ohio


Woody plants:

Ohio Shale, Ohio


Herbaceous plants:

Grassy Creek Shale, E Missouri

 

 

 

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