Blanchester (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Clinton County, Ohio (39.2° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 57.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Richmond Group, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173010: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2015, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta
"Strophomena neglecta" = Tetraphalerella neglecta James 1891
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia glabra Ulrich 1890 ostracod