04-TFP-6.5C (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Hamilton County, Ohio (39.3° N, 84.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miamitown Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C2 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72983: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorphidae indet. Miller 1877 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis Foerste 1910
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Acidaspis sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki Foerste 1910 trilobite
Crinoidea
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily