Sugar Run near Clarksville (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as "trilobite bed" of the lower Waynesville Formation

Where: Warrnet County, Ohio (39.3° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 58.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waynesville Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• lower Waynesville Formation, in the “trilobite bed.” "Trilobite bed” may correspond to the Trilobite shale unit of (Frey 1987)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; shale

• offshore component of the C5 sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K.E. Caster and E.N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1964. Upper Ordovician eurypterids of Ohio. Palaeontographica Americana 4(32):301-358 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204993: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 02.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Megalograptidae
Megalograptus williamsae Caster and Kjellesvig-Waering 1964 eurypterid
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite