Oldenburg, Lower Section (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Ohio (39.3° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Blanchester Member (Waynesville Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 sequence. Near bottom of member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; poorly lithified shale

• ‘‘butter shale’’

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: B. R. Hunda and N. C. Hughes. 2007. Evaluating paedomorphic heterochrony in trilobites: the case of the diminutive trilobite Flexicalymene retrorsa minuens from the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati region. Evolution & Development 9(5):483-498 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192308: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene retrorsa Foerste 1910 trilobite
Flexicalymene retrorsa retrorsa