Todds Fork (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Clinton County, Ohio (39.4° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 58.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• C5 third-order depositional sequence

Environment/lithology: offshore; claystone

• "crinoid-bearing clays, 3 feet above the wave-marked limestone."

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 204994: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 02.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Cladida - Plicodendrocrinidae
"Dendrocrinus casei" = Plicodendrocrinus casei
"Dendrocrinus casei" = Plicodendrocrinus casei Meek 1871 Sea lily
 Camerata - Reteocrinidae
Gaurocrinus nealli Hall 1866 Sea lily
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Megalograptidae
Megalograptus welchi Miller 1874 eurypterid