Richmond (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, Indiana (39.8° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.0° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Whitewater Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks

• "9 cm thick trepostomic bafflestone, locally oncolitic. BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

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 194133: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

• "Frey, 1987b"
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania simulatrix Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Salpingostoma richmondensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail