Mt. Auburn - Holland, 1988: Maysvillian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporoidea
Stromatoporoidea indet. Nicholson and Murie 1878
1 category
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
? Orthonybyoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
2 category
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Loxoplocus bowdeni
1 category
    = Paupospira bowdeni Safford 1869
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Cyclora sp. Hall 1845
1 category
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852
1 category
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
1 category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Caritodens demissa (Conrad 1842)
1 category
recombined as Pterinea demissa
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena richmondensis Foerste 1909
1 category
Rafinesquina alternata (Conrad 1838)
4 category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella occidentalis (Hall 1847)
2 category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia ponderosa Foerste 1909
4 category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella multisecta (James 1871)
1 category
recombined as Cincinnetina multisecta
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
3 category
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Petrocrania scabiosa (Hall 1866)
1 category
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Trematis millepunctata Hall 1875
1 category
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
4 category
includes thick bifoliate, hemispherical, encrusting, and ramose forms
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora ramosa (Dorbigny 1850)
2 category
Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata
Cyclostomata indet. Busk 1852
1 category
Tentaculita - Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
1 category
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
1 category
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste 1910)
1 category
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847
2 category
Crinoidea - Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977
2 category
Crinoidea - Homocrinida - Anomalocrinidae
Anomalocrinus sp. Meek and Worthen 1868
1 category
Crinoidea - Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Iocrinus sp. Hall 1866
1 category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 84.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.3° South, 60.0° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:middle Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
*Epoch:Middle Ashgill
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Maysvillian
Key time interval:Maysvillian Graptolite zone: Climacograptus pygmaeus
Age range of interval:452.00000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grant Lake Member:Mount Auburn
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: C3 Sequence.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: very thin to thin bedded, wavy bedded to nodular, skeletal packstone, wackestone, and grainstone. interbedded with very thin gray fossiliferous and dolomitic claystones.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),sieve,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:5394
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Holland, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-29 13:03:50 Last modified:2018-08-05 13:56:31
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-29 13:03:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

320. S. M. Holland. 1988. Taphonomic effects of sea-floor exposure on an Ordovician brachiopod assemblage. Palaios 3(6):588-597 [S. Holland/S. Holland]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]