Where: Kentucky (38.6° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 59.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Marble Hill Limestone Member (Lower Whitewater Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Middle Richmondian age. Sample #4 collected by Shuguang Mao. 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, dolomitic, shelly/skeletal, white grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with dolomite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Bulk collection made in field by Shuguang Mao and weighed, cleaned, prepped, and identified in lab at University of Cincinnati. Sample weighed 3769 g; outer surfaces samples, 116 square-inches (=748 square-cm). 97 specimens counted; 97 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. Bivalves and brachiopods 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 64169: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 03.09.2006

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