Concrete layer, Whitewater Fm., Saluda Tongue (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• "30 cm massive micritic ls. shallow water, restricted low energy lagoonal facies that developed behind a coral-algal bank. BA2 close to BA1"

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

• "Frey 1987b"
Tetradium
  -
"Tetradium ontario" = Tetradium huronense
"Tetradium ontario" = Tetradium huronense Billings 1865
Demospongiae
 Sigmatosclerophorida - Dystactospongiidae
Dystactospongia madisonensis Foerste 1909 demosponge
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus maximus Locke 1838 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Isochilinidae
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
 Palaeocopida - Eurychilinidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Sphenosphaera mohri Miller 1874 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Schizolopha tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora
"Schizolopha tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora Meek 1873 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Pseudocolpomya elongata Ulrich 1890 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Oonoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
? Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
originally entered as "? Pseudolingula sp."