Where: Ohio (39.0° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 58.5° W)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Bellevue Formation, Maysvillian to Maysvillian (450.2 - 443.7 Ma)
• "lower Maysvillian"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal packstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: E. Dalve. 1948. The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region. University Museum, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Cincinnati 1-56 [S. Holland/S. Holland/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 389: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia sp. Miller 1820 jellyfish | |
Hexactinellida | |
Pattersonia sp. glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Hindia sp. Duncan 1879 demosponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
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Edrioasteroidea | |
Isorophus sp. Foerste 1916 | |
Cincinnatidiscus sp. Bassler 1935
Carneyella sp. Forste 1916 | |
Streptaster sp. Hall 1872 | |
Cyclocystoidea | |
Cyclocystoides sp. Salter and Billings 1858 | |
Crinoidea | |
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Ophiuroidea | |
"Alepidaster sp." = Taeniaster
"Alepidaster sp." = Taeniaster Billings 1858 brittle star | |
Asteroidea | |
Mesopalaeaster sp. Schuchert 1914 sea star | |
Promopalaeaster sp. Schuchert 1914 sea star | |
Gastropoda | |
Microceras sp. Hall 1845 snail | |
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Schizolopha sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
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Sinuites sp. Koken 1896 snail | |
Tergomya | |
Cyrtolites sp. Conrad 1838 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Troedssonoceras sp. Foerste 1928 | |
Treptoceras sp. Flower 1942 | |
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847 | |
Bivalvia | |
Lyrodesma sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Ischyrodonta sp. Ulrich 1890 clam | |
Orthodesma sp., Modiolodon sp., ? Modiolopsis sp., "Cymatonota sp." = Cymatonota, "Psiloconcha sp." = Cymatonota
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam
"Cymatonota sp." = Cymatonota Ulrich 1893 clam | |
Sphenolium sp. Miller 1889 clam | |
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea
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Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
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"Cleidophorus sp." = Nuculites
"Cleidophorus sp." = Nuculites Conrad 1841 clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890 | |
"Dekayia sp." = Dekayia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Leptotrypa sp. Ulrich 1883
Stigmatella sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 | |
Bythopora sp. Miller and Dyer 1878 | |
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Stomatopora sp. Bronn 1825 | |
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Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821 | |
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Spatiopora sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
Lingulata | |
Schizocrania sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Trematis sp. Sharpe 1848 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Heterorthina sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
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Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
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Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Craniata | |
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Polychaeta | |
Lepidocoleus sp. Faber 1886 scale worm | |
Sedentaria | |
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Trilobita | |
Achatella sp. Delo 1935 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
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Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |