Where: Ohio (39.0° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 60.0° W)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Auburn Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• "upper 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 391: 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 | |
Cyclocystoidea | |
Cyclocystoides sp. Salter and Billings 1858 | |
Crinoidea | |
Iocrinus sp. Hall 1866 Sea lily | |
Ophiuroidea | |
"Alepidaster sp." = Taeniaster
"Alepidaster sp." = Taeniaster Billings 1858 brittle star | |
Asteroidea | |
Promopalaeaster sp. Schuchert 1914 sea star | |
Mesopalaeaster sp. Schuchert 1914 sea star | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
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Achatella sp. Delo 1935 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Sedentaria | |
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Polychaeta | |
Lepidocoleus sp. Faber 1886 scale worm | |
Lophophorata | |
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820 | |
Lingulata | |
Trematis sp. Sharpe 1848 | |
Craniata | |
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Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821 | |
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"Petigopora sp." = Dekayia, Heterotrypa sp.
"Petigopora sp." = Dekayia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Heterotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879 | |
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
Coeloclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
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Bivalvia | |
Sphenolium sp. Miller 1889 clam | |
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam | |
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea
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Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
"Cleidophorus sp." = Nuculites
"Cleidophorus sp." = Nuculites Conrad 1841 clam | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Trocholites sp. Conrad 1838 | |
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847 | |
Treptoceras sp. Flower 1942 | |
Gastropoda | |
Cyclora sp. Hall 1845 snail | |
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail | |
Schizolopha sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
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Microceras sp. Hall 1845 snail | |
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Tergomya | |
Cyrtolites sp. Conrad 1838 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia sp. Miller 1820 jellyfish | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
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Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Hindia sp. Duncan 1879 demosponge |