Stony Hollow, southwestern Ohio, Waynesville Formation, T. duseri shale: Ashgill, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras fosteri (Miller 1875)
Frey 1995 4 specimens
MU 17176 (suite of 4 specimens)
Treptoceras duseri (Hall and Whitfield 1875)
Treptoceras cincinnatiensis (Miller 1875)
Frey 1995 3 specimens
MU, 423T, 17179 (suite of 2 specimens)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Lepidocyclus perlamellosum (Whitfield 1878)
Klingensmith 2007
recombined as Lepidocyclus perlamellosa
Hiscobeccus capax (Conrad 1842)
Klingensmith 2007
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia clarksvillensis Foerste 1910
Klingensmith 2007
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena planumbona (Hall 1847)
Klingensmith 2007
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eochonetes clarksvillensis (Foerste 1912)
Klingensmith 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Clinton
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 84.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.8° South, 57.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Richmondian
Key time interval:Ashgill
Age range of interval:449.60000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waynesville
Local section:Treptoceras duseri shale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Richmondian; Unit located about 11-13 m above Arnheim-Waynesville contact.
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
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:27501
Authorizer:S. Holland, A. Stigall, B. Kröger Enterer:T. Hanson, A. Stigall, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-12-07 13:23:27 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:45
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-07 13:23:27
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:

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]