Where: Franklin County, Indiana (39.4° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Saluda Tongue Member (Whitewater Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• "Richmondian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 374: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tetradium | |
"Tetradium ontario" = Tetradium huronense
"Tetradium ontario" = Tetradium huronense Billings 1865 | |
Demospongiae | |
Dystactospongia madisonensis Foerste 1909 demosponge | |
Trilobita | |
Isotelus maximus Locke 1838 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Isochilina subnodosa ostracod | |
Leperditia caecigenia ostracod | |
Coelochilina striatomarginata ostracod | |
Gastropoda | |
Sphenosphaera mohri Miller 1874 snail | |
"Schizolopha tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora
"Schizolopha tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora Meek 1873 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Rhytimya byrnesis clam | |
Orthodesma curvatum clam | |
Pseudocolpomya elongata Ulrich 1890 clam | |
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster | |
Ambonychia robusta clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Manitoulinoceras gyroforme Flower 1946 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Lingulata | |
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