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)
• "Richmondian"
Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1987. The paleoecology of a Late Ordovician shale unit from southwest Ohio and southeastern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 61:242-267 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 373: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Pete Wagner and Susan Scholze
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata | |
Coeloclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Heterotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879 | |
Batostomella sp. Bassler 1911 | |
Mesotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Holtedahlina sp. Foerste 1924
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Tergomya | |
"Archinacella richmondensis n. sp." = Archinacella indianensis4
"Archinacella richmondensis n. sp." = Archinacella indianensis4 Miller 1892 | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa2
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Cephalopoda | |
"Cyrtoceras amoenum n. sp." = Beloitoceras amoenum3 Miller 1879 UC 106 (holotype); Earlham College 7744, 14953 (hypotypes)
"Beloitoceras amoenum" = Beloitoceras amoenum2 Miller 1879 | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Bellerophon mohri" = Sphenosphaera mohri4, "Bellerophon subangularis n. sp." = Sphenosphaera subangularis4
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"Raphistomina richmondensis n. sp." = Scalites richmondensis4
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"Schizolopha tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora2, "Lophospira ampla" = Paupospira tropidophora4, "Schizolopha moorei n. sp." = Paupospira moorei4, "Lophospira acuminata" = Lophospira perangulata4
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Trilobita | |
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite |