Stony Hollow (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Clinton County, Ohio (39.4° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 57.7° 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.

• 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: E.C. Stumm and E.G. Kauffman. 1958. Calymenid trilobites from the Ordovician rocks of Michigan. Journal of Paleontology 32(5):943-960 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192309: 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 meeki retrorsa