02-GS-A (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Marion County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 62.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clays Ferry Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C1 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 72695: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
thin_ramose
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
bifoliate
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
  - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis Foerste 1910
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871
 Atrypida - Anazygidae