Also known as Hitz Bed, sample 1 (HW1), Upper Whitewater Formation, Madison, IN

Where: Indiana (38.8° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 59.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Rhipidognathus symmetricus conodont zone, Hitz Member (Upper Whitewater Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Late Richmondian age. Sample #1 collected. Details on stratigraphy and sedimentation (lithology), and additional details of gastropod and bivalve fauna are included from Novack-Gottshall and Miller (2003) [PBDB reference #18186] and field notes. C6.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone and lithified, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Bulk collection made in field and weighed, cleaned, prepped, and identified in lab at University of Cincinnati. Sample weighed 2.7741 Kg. 41 specimens counted; 30 individuals estimated (using half of total disarticulated specimens with two parts plus number of articulated/intact specimens). Taxa counted using percent-coverage not included in this tally. Bryozoans and ostracodes were counted as estimated percent cover using standard percent cover reference chart.

Primary reference: P. M. Novack-Gottshall. 1999. Comparative geographic and environmental diversity dynamics of gastropods and bivalves during the Ordovician Radiation (M.S. thesis, University of Cincinnati). 1-191 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64165: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 03.09.2006

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