Where: Vigo County, Indiana (39.5° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 24.5° S, 61.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mt. Hope Member (Fairview Formation), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• "early Maysvillian"

Environment/lithology: offshore; claystone

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 376: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Pete Wagner

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