Linguloid fauna of the Orthorhynchula-Ambonychia community, Reedsville and Marti (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Maryland (39.3° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 55.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)
• "U. Ord. Reedsville and Martinsburg Fm.s"
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; siltstone
• "sand-silt. very shallow water, near strandline"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. W. Bretsky. 1970. Upper Ordovician Ecology of the Central Appalachians. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 34:1-150 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 408: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.12.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "P.W. Bretsky, 1969. Central Appalachian Late Ord. Communities. GSA Bull. 80:193-212. P.W. Bretsky, 1970. Upper Ord. ecology of the central Appalachians. Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist. Bull. 34 150pp."
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? Ischyrodonta truncata clam 'biovolume rank' (Walker 1972) - originally entered as "? Ischyrodonta truncata"
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? Bucania sp. Hall 1847 snail 'biovolume rank' (Walker 1972) - originally entered as "? Bucania sp."
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? Plectonotus sp. Clarke 1899 snail 'biovolume rank' (Walker 1972) - originally entered as "? Plectonotus sp."
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