Also known as Was: Russel Branch, sample 1 (RB1), Waynesville Formation, St. Marys, IN

Where: Indiana (39.4° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Waynesville Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Middle 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, burrowed, pyritic, shelly/skeletal claystone and lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, trace, recrystallized, coalified, original calcite, original phosphate, original chitin, original carbon, replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Bulk collection made in field and weighed, cleaned, prepped, and identified in lab at University of Cincinnati. Sample weighed 3.744 Kg. 117 specimens counted; 57 individuals estimated (using half of total disarticulated specimens with two parts plus number of articulated/intact specimens). Trepostome bryozoans and fragmented trilobites 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 64170: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 03.09.2006

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