02-SGH-51 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Indiana (39.3° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 58.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liberty Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, 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 72526: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose