03-BN-11.1 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Union County, Indiana (39.5° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Whitewater Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone

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

Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72448: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose