Roadcut along US 42: Richmondian, Ohio
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Ancienta ohioensis
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Frey 1987 | 30 specimens | ||||||||
| misspelling Ancientia | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Lophospiridae
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Schizolopha tropidophora
(Meek 1873)
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Frey 1987 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
| Scalites tropidophora | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Sinuitidae
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Sinuites subcompressus
(Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
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Frey 1987 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Sinuites subcompressa | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Cardiolariidae
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Deceptrix albertina
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Frey 1987 | 25 specimens | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lyrodesmatidae
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Lyrodesma major
(Ulrich 1879)
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Frey 1987 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Corallidomus versaillesensis
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Frey 1987 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cyrtodontida
- Cyrtodontidae
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Vanuxemia waynesvillensis n. sp.
Frey 1980
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Frey 1980 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Ambonychiidae
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Ambonychia suberecta
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Frey 1987 | 13 specimens | ||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Valcouroceratidae
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Manitoulinoceras williamsae
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Frey 1987 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Treptoceras fosteri
(Miller 1875)
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Frey 1995 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| MU 276T, 419T (both are hypotypes) | ||||||||||
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Treptoceras duseri
(Hall and Whitfield 1875)
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Treptoceras cincinnatiensis
(Miller 1875)
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Frey 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MU 17185 | ||||||||||
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Tergomya
- Cyrtonellida
- Cyrtolitidae
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Cyrtolites retrorsus
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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Frey 1987 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Rafinesquina loxorhytis
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Frey 1987 | 20 specimens | ||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Platystrophiidae
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Platystrophia laticosta
(James 1871)
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Klingensmith 2007 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Orthis laticostata | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Onniella meeki
(Miller 1875)
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Frey 1987 | 13 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Cincinnetina meeki | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Zygospira modesta
(Hall 1847)
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Frey 1987 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Batostomellidae
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Batostomella gracilis
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Frey 1987 | uncommon category | ||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Halloporidae
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Parvohallopora onealli
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Frey 1987 | rare category | ||||||||
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus maximus
Locke 1838
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Frey 1987 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Flexicalymene meeki
(Foerste 1910)
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Frey 1987 | 16 specimens | ||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Ohio | County: | Warren |
| Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 84.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.7° South, 57.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Richmondian |
| Key time interval: | Richmondian | Conodont zone: | Aphelognathus grandis |
| Age range of interval: | 449.80000 - 446.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Waynesville | Member: | Fort Ancient | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Richmondian; Unit located about 11-13 m above Arnheim-Waynesville contact. Treptoceras duseri shale | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | blue claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Massive blue claystone. | |
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf |
| Geology comments: Deeper-water, low-energy, mud-bottom environment. Heavily oxygenated. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Was: Roadcut along US 42, southwestern Ohio, Waynesville Formation, T. duseri shale | ||
| Database number: | 27499 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland, B. Kröger, P. Wagner, A. Stigall | Enterer: | T. Hanson, P. Wagner, T. Liebrecht, A. Stigall |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-12-07 13:06:52 | Last modified: | 2018-04-03 19:55:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-12-07 13:06:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7571. | R. C. Frey. 1988. Paleoecology of Treptoceras duseri (Michelinoceratida, Proteoceratidae) from Late Ordovician of southwestern Ohio. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 44:79-101 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson] |
Secondary references:
| 26306 | R. C. Frey. 1980. Vanuxemia waynesvillensis, a new species of cyrtodontid pelecypod from the Upper Ordovician of southwest Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 54(4):740-744 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
| 11467 | R. C. Frey. 1987. The occurrence of pelecypods in early Paleozoic epeiric-sea environments, Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Palaios 2(1):3-23 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
| 24575 | R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland] | |
| 25360 | B. C. Klingensmith. 2007. GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella. [A. Stigall/A. Stigall] |