The Paleontology of North America

The Ordovician in Idaho, US

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undifferentiated rock units

See exposures in this state from the:

Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian

Ordovician Fossils

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Paleontology and geology

A shallow sea covered parts of Idaho during the Ordovician, and large thicknesses of Ordovician marine sediments are known from southeastern and central Idaho (included as undifferentiated on this map). These contain a variety of fossils including algae, brachiopods, trilobites, ostracods, graptolites, corals, gastropods, crinoids, sponges, nautiloids, and very large trace fossils.

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